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Climbing Mount Fuji via the Yoshida Trail now comes with a mandatory fee

Starting with the 2024 summer season, Yamanashi Prefecture charges 2,000 yen per person and caps the number of daily climbers on the busiest trail.

By Anisukii newsroom

Mount Fuji at dawn above a sea of clouds, with silhouetted trees in the foreground
Image: © Council for the Promotion of Appropriate Use of Mt. Fuji · Image source (opens in a new tab)

Yamanashi Prefecture has begun enforcing new rules on the Yoshida Trail, the most popular route up Mount Fuji. Anyone who wants to climb must pay a fee of 2,000 yen per person.

In addition, a daily cap on climbers has been introduced, and access is closed at night to anyone without a reservation at one of the mountain huts.

The goal is to curb overcrowding and, above all, so-called “bullet climbing”: hiking up overnight without resting to watch the sunrise from the summit, a practice that causes safety and health problems.

The measure is part of a broader trend in Japan to manage the growth of tourism at the country's most visited sites.