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Mount Fuji’s summer climbing season begins on Monday with new crowd control measures on the Japanese volcano’s most popular hiking trail to combat overtourism.
Record tourist crowds are flocking to Japan post-pandemic, with many wanting to see or scale Mount Fuji, which is covered in snow most of the year but draws more than 220,000 visitors each July-September climbing period. Each summer, reports in Japanese media describe tourists climbing Mount Fuji with insufficient mountaineering equipment.
Japan last year attracted over 25 million tourists from abroad, in part buoyed by the lifting of pandemic-era border restrictions. Its tourism chief said last month that its ambitious goal of luring 60 million foreign tourists a year was well within reach.
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