SHIZUOKA, Japan -- Shizuoka prefecture, south of Tokyo, is promoting tour packages for wealthy golfers from abroad. A major ...

Fuji is soaring. But experts say only highly skilled and well-prepared hikers should attempt to scale Japan's iconic peak ... usually open on the mountain's Shizuoka side around July 10, and ...

Mount Fuji, one of Japan’s most popular attractions ... is struggling to balance tourism with preservation. In response, Shizuoka Prefecture is considering implementing mandatory entrance ...

Fuji City Hall in Shizuoka shared images of the snow ... Snow usually dusts the summit of Japan’s tallest mountain by early ...

Four people were found dead on Mount Fuji on June 26, days before the official climbing season starts on Japan’s highest ... the crater of the mountain, Shizuoka prefectural police said.

Mount Fuji is many things to Japan – including ... was located in the present-day Subashiri district of Oyama Town, Shizuoka Prefecture. In June last year, a project kicked off to shed more ...

FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture--Park rangers on Japan's sacred Mount ... season this year on Mount Fuji, which straddles the prefectures of Yamanashi and Shizuoka about 136 km (85 miles ...

The city of Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture added 35 winter days ... the latest date since records began in 1894. 01:44 Japan's Mount Fuji snowless in October for first time in 130 years Japan's ...

Last year, Yamanashi Prefecture, one of the two prefectures in which Mount Fuji stands, introduced a mandatory hiking fee for those heading up the symbol of Japan. Now Shizuoka, the other prefecture ...

A short distance south of Tokyo, Shizuoka Prefecture is earning a reputation as a luxury destination for those in search of ...

Shizuoka Prefecture. If those mentions of “Fuji” have you thinking of Mount Fuji, you’re spot-on. Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha is the head shrine of the many Sengan shrines (also sometimes called Asama ...

central Japan, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, the country's highest mountain straddling Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures. The snowcap was 36 days later than average and the latest ...