There are many alternative ways to experience central Japan’s sacred peak without the crowds, from hiking its sister summits ...

Mount Fuji, Japan's most iconic and revered mountain, is experiencing an unprecedented event. For the first time in 130 years ...

KOFU--Mount Fuji is ushering in the start of colder weather ... A staff member of the office observed snow at the summit of the 3,776-meter mountain at around 6 a.m. The lowest temperature at ...

Temperatures at the summit can be below zero Celsius in June ... The number of mishaps on Mt. Fuji is on the rise. Mountain guide Takekawa Shunji says the most important thing is to draw up ...

He's spent the past 14 years working on Mt. Fuji, where he leads foreign climbers from the 5th station to the summit about 20 times a month during the summer. So far he has scaled the peak more ...

On or after Oct. 26, a front is expected to move northward over the Japanese archipelago, bringing with it the possibility of snowfall on Mount Fuji’s summit. Should the skies be clear ...

But those limits might not be enough. Mount Fuji is the highest peak in Japan. A sacred mountain with a snow-capped summit like icing cake on its perfectly conical shape, it is perhaps the most ...

Now Shizuoka, the other prefecture with part of Mount Fuji, is planning to do the same ... climbing,” the practice of hiking through the night and arriving at the summit of Fuji in time to watch the ...

The pond formed some 10,000 years ago, carved into the earth by lava flowing from Mount Fuji. Once the basin cooled and hardened, it filled with rain and winter snow melting from the mountain, and ...