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This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — and one which attracts far fewer visitors.

Japan faces overtourism challenges with 36 million visitors in 2024, raising concerns about two-tier pricing and the ...

I’m not a mountain climber and I’m not particularly fond of hiking, so the decision to do so at age 59 was somewhat hard to explain. There was something about Fuji.

At 414 metres high, it’s a tiny mountain by most standards. Yet almost all Japanese people intend to make this easygoing day-hike pilgrimage at least once in their lives.

Mountain We have moved to the KAI Sengokuhara, a mountain resort in the Fuji-Hakone – Izu National Park, where Mt. Fuji rises in the background and the active volcano Owakudani rumbles and smokes.

Of Mount Fuji’s 10 hiking stations, the fifth (called “Gogome”) is located roughly halfway up the 3,776-meter (12,388-foot) mountain. It receives 90% of the mountain’s visitors, most whom ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). For travellers looking to explore the peaks of Japan, it doesn’t get much better than the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, an ...