Hikers must pay to climb up Mount Fuji utilizing any of its 4 primary paths ranging from this summer season.
Underneath a brand new invoice handed on Monday, an entry payment of ¥4,000 (€24.70) can be launched in time for peak season.
Japan’s highest mountain has been combating overtourism. A dramatic enhance in guests is inflicting air pollution and security issues.
To assist clear up the mountain and protect its atmosphere, authorities beforehand launched a payment and a every day customer cap alongside the most well-liked path in 2024.
Mount Fuji hikers must pay €24 this summer season
Final summer season, guests to Mount Fuji needed to pay ¥2,000 (€12.35) to hike up the Yoshida path. That is the most well-liked ascent due to its easy accessibility from Tokyo and the frequency of mountain huts en route providing lodging and meals.
Japan’s Yamanashi prefectural authorities, which oversees climbing actions on the UNESCO World Heritage web site, deemed it essential to introduce the toll to guard the atmosphere.
It additionally carried out a 4,000 individuals per day restrict on hikers utilizing the Yoshida path to ease congestion.
Now, the payment to hike the enduring path is doubling to ¥4,000 (€24.70), a cost which can even apply to a few different routes that have been beforehand free.
Hikers must pay between July and September, which is the height climbing season.
Final yr, authorities mentioned the proceeds could be used to assemble shelters alongside the trail to be used within the occasion of a volcanic eruption and to keep up the climbing route.
Since 2014, climbers ascending the mountain through any of its trails have additionally been inspired to voluntarily pay ¥1,000 (€6.20) per particular person in direction of the preservation of the positioning.
Mount Fuji laws have helped deal with overtourism
The restrictions that have been introduced in final yr proved to be efficient, decreasing the variety of guests ascending Mount Fuji from 221,322 in 2023 to 204,316, in line with figures from Japan’s atmosphere ministry.
One other measure introduced in final yr to curb overtourism in a close-by city has additionally proved efficient.
Fujikawaguchiko acquired so fed up with vacationer crowds that they constructed an enormous fence blocking the view they have been coming for – Mount Fuji.
The 20-metre lengthy and a couple of.5-metre excessive fence lined with a black mesh prevented vacationers from taking selfies with the landmark after incidents of littering, crossing dangerously by way of busy visitors, ignoring visitors lights and trespassing into non-public properties.
The barrier was taken down in August as a precaution when a storm was forecast, however authorities determined to not reinstall it because it proved to have been efficient.
They warned, nonetheless, that it could possibly be put again up if vacationers return in massive numbers.
