Japan welcomes solo travelers after 2 years of COVID-19 restrictions 02:42. Tokyo — A Japanese town will replace a barrier mounted to deter unruly tourists from taking photos of Mount Fuji after ...

A town in Japan is building a large black screen to block the view of the country’s iconic Mount Fuji, in an effort to fend off misbehaving foreign tourists.

Namie is a ghost town: its back streets deserted, its shops shuttered. Weeds push through the cracks between paving stones and black bags of radioactive soil are piled up everywhere. The town was ...

To deter tourists, a town in Japan is building a big screen blocking the view of Mt. Fuji Visitors take photos of Mt. Fuji in front of a convenience store in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Japan, on ...

TOKYO – A huge black barrier to block Mount Fuji from view will be installed in a popular photo spot by the Japanese authorities exasperated by crowds of badly behaved foreign tourists ...

Overtourism in Japan Residents of Otaru aren’t the only group in Japan getting frustrated about the added attention. In May last year, Fujikawaguchiko, a small town at the base of Mount Fuji ...

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan, May 2 (Reuters) - Officials in a Japanese town are erecting a 2.5-meter (8.2 ft) high barrier to block a view of Mount Fuji and obstruct a photo spot that has been ...

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan May 21 (Reuters) - Japan's majestic Mt. Fuji was some 700,000 years in the making, but on one sultry May morning, it was gone. At least on one side of a busy road, views of ...