Japan's world famous Mount Fuji grapples with crowds

2023-09-08 15

With its millions of visitors every year and the buses, supply trucks, noodle shops and fridge magnets, Mount Fuji is no longer the peaceful, nature-filled pilgrimage site it once was.

Now Japanese authorities have had enough, saying that the number of hikers trekking up the world-famous volcano -- night and day -- are so numerous that it's dangerous and an ecological embarrassment.

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