I was climbing with my husband and son, at the tail end of an already booked visit to Japan in late June. You can climb Fuji on your own, but we booked a two-day tour with Fuji Mountain Guides ...

Back in Japan, Mount Fuji is usually covered in snow for most of the year, until the summer, when the snowless mountain ...

There is an old Japanese saying that to climb Fuji once is wise, to climb it twice is to proclaim oneself a fool.” ...

Many foreigners wrongly assume that the Japanese revere Mount Fuji so much that they put san after the mountain’s name, calling it "Fuji-san." A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

priests in Shizuoka Prefecture cut a rope to announce the start of climbing season for Mount Fuji. More than 200,000 people are expected to make the trek up Japan's iconic mountain over the 10 ...

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 ...

Stuart Arnold visited Pikes Peak, known as “America’s Mountain” and the second most visited mountain in the world (behind Mount Fuji in Japan), during a trip to Denver, Colorado ...

Mt Fuji, which straddles Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures in eastern Japan, has always been popular ... the number of visitors by making the mountain only accessible by a yet-to-be-built tram ...