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Overtourism brings headaches for hosts of Mt. Fuji
Mt. Fuji filmed in 1949, with Shinto priests conducting a purification ceremony. Japan's highest mountain is considered a sacred place in the Shinto religion. An 8th-century collection of poems ...
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Japan imposes new fees on Mount Fuji climbers to limit tourists
A still active stratovolcano whose last eruption was in 1707, Mount Fuji has been a site of Shinto and Buddhist worship for centuries. The number of climbers recovered to pre-pandemic levels last ...
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Japan’s Mount Fuji implements tourist tax in response to overcrowding concerns
Mount Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site and an icon ... which is part of a 1,400-year-old Shinto complex. In October 2023, the town began charging 100 yen (62 cents) per visitor to the shrine.
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Lisa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan/ Mount Fuji: Privately owned, publicly sacred peak that a ‘fool’ climbs twice
Not really. It turns out Mount Fuji, from the eighth station upward, is privately owned. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), the first ruler of the Tokugawa Shogunate, gave it to a Shinto shrine in 1606 ...