The same policy will be applied to the Fujinomiya, Gotemba and Subashiri trails in Shizuoka Prefecture starting next summer, making the restrictions almost identical in both prefectures.

The Fujinomiya, Subashiri and Gotenba trails in the prefecture saw a combined total of 89,459 climbers, a 6.4 percent increase from the previous summer. This also marked a 4.4 percent increase ...

In the climbing season of 2023 through Sept. 10, Yamanashi counted 137,236 visits using the Yoshida trail while Shizuoka recorded 49,545 on the Fujinomiya trail, followed by 19,062 and 15,479 on ...

The most popular, and easiest to access from Tokyo, is the Yoshida Trail, which starts in Yamanashi Prefecture. The other three routes, the Subashiri, Gotemba and Fujinomiya Trails, all begin in ...