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Mt Fuji installs new emergency shelters ahead of the 2026 climbing season

• Oona McGee
  Jun 30, 2026
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New reinforced shelters are designed to protect climbers from volcanic eruptions, falling rocks and lightning.

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• (2026 climbing season • climbing • climbing Mt. Fuji • Fuji • Fujisan • hiking • mountain climbing • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji climbing season • nature • outdoors • safety • tourism • travel • Yoshida Trail)

What’s it really like to climb Mt Fuji?

• Oona McGee
  Sep 17, 2025

One climber reveals the key to climbing Mt Fuji successfully might be to do it more than once.

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• (climbing • COK • Fuji • hiking • mountain climbing • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji climbing season • Mt. Fuji hiking season • Mt. Fuji hiking trails • outdoors • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Mt Fuji climbers will now be refused entry if they don’t wear proper clothing

• Oona McGee
  Sep 9, 2025

Rangers given new powers to deny entry to those who come ill-prepared. 

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• (Fuji • hiking • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • nature • outdoors • tourism • travel • Yoshida Trail)

How to climb Mt. Fuji in 2025

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 2, 2025

All of Mt. Fuji’s four hiking trails are now open, and all of them have new rules this year.

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• (Fuji • hiking • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • nature • outdoors • tourism • travel • Yoshida Trail)

Mt Fuji Radar Dome Museum puts you inside a blizzard at the summit

• Oona McGee
  Feb 27, 2025

A simulation for the summit-curious that’ll literally blow you away.

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• (experiences • extreme weather • Fuji • hiking • Japan experiences • mountain climbing • Mt Fuji Radar • Mt Fuji Radar Dome • Mt. Fuji • simulation • SNJO • tourist sites • travel • weather • Yamanashi)

Onsen hot spring with Mt Fuji views has one of the best rotenburo in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jun 26, 2024

Bathing here is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you don’t want to miss.

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• Japan
• (Ashigara • Ashigara Onsen • bathing • COK • cool • Fuji • hot springs • Mt. Fuji • onsen • outdoor baths • piano • rotenburo • Seiji Nakazawa • sento • Shizuoka • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Sorakaze: New Hakone sightseeing cruise boat on Lake Ashi is as stunning as the Mt Fuji views

• Oona McGee
  Jun 14, 2024

Complete with a grass deck, this “green park floating on a lake” is a beautiful way to travel.  

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• (Ashinoko • boats • COK • cruise • cruises • Fuji • Hakone • Hakone Shrine • Lake Ashi • Mt. Fuji • nature • sightseeing boats • SNJO • torii • tours • travel)

Bad-mannered tourists cause chaos at new Mt Fuji viral photo spot, city erects fence to stop them

• Oona McGee
  Jun 1, 2024

Fuji City’s Great Dream Bridge becomes a nightmare for local residents.

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• (bad manners • Fuji • Fuji City • Instagram • Living in Japan • Mt Fuji Great Dream Bridge • Mt. Fuji • news • overcrowding • overtourism • social media • TikTok • tourism • tourists • tourists site • travel)

Has the Mt Fuji Lawson blackout screen really stopped tourists from taking photos?

• Oona McGee
  May 29, 2024

Visit to Fujikawaguchiko reveals the truth about the tourist situation.

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• (COK • convenience stores • Fuji • Fujikawaguchiko • Instagram • Japanese convenience stores • Kawaguchiko • Lawson • Mt. Fuji • news • overtourism • SNJO • social media • TikTok • tourism • tourist sites • tourists • travel)

Tourists damage Mt Fuji Lawson blackout screen that was meant to stop bad-mannered visitors

• Oona McGee
  May 28, 2024

Bad behaviour continues as sightseers find way to override the system.

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• (convenience stores • Fuji • Fujikawaguchiko • Fujisan • Instagram • Japanese convenience stores • Lawson • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji Lawson • news • overcrowding • overtourism • social media • TikTok • tourism • tourist sites • tourists • travel)

Mt Fuji Lawson view now blocked by screens, but will it stop bad-mannered tourists?

• SoraNews24
  May 22, 2024

First look at the new screens makes us wonder if this is a good enough deterrent.

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• (convenience stores • Fuji • Instagram • Japanese convenience stores • Lawson • Mt. Fuji • overtourism • social media • TikTok • tourism • tourists • tourists site • travel)

Does the Blue Mt Fuji Curry taste as terrifying as it looks?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 1, 2023

We go on a trek to conquer this mountain of curry, and end up learning something in the process.

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• (blue curry • COK • cool • curry • curry rice • food • Fuji • Fujisan • fun • Japanese curry • Japanese food • Mt. Fuji • retort curry • review • SNJO • souvenirs • taste test • Yamanashi)

Fujisan View Express: A train journey to Mt Fuji so stylish you’ll never want it to end

• Oona McGee
  Sep 21, 2023

There’s one carriage that requires a special fare to ride in, but it’s worth it. 

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• (COK • Fuji • fuji-q • fuji-q highland • Fujisan • Fujisan View Express • Japanese trains • luxury trains • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mt. Fuji • SNJO • tourist sites • trains • travel)

Stay in a Japanese hotel room…with a train inside it!

• Oona McGee
  Sep 15, 2023

Train, uniform and a glorious view of Mt Fuji make this a very Japanese place to stay.

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• (accommodation • COK • cool • Fuji • fuji-q • fuji-q highland • hotels • Japanese accommodation • Japanese trains • Masanuki Sunakoma • Mt. Fuji • SNJO • themed hotel • trains • travel • weird • wow • Yamanashi Prefecture)

Japan’s other beautiful fuji, wisteria, are about to turn Ashikaga Flower Park into a wonderland

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 8, 2023

Flowers have begun blooming at gorgeous park in Tochigi.

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• (Ashikaga Flower Park • awesome • beautiful • COK • flowers • Fuji • nature • Tochigi • wisteria)

Coca Cola releases new Mt Fuji bottles in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 4, 2023

Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa gets a new look for this souvenir coke bottle design. 

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• (art • bottles • Coca-Cola • Coca-Cola bottles • COK • Coke • cool • design • drinks • Fuji • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • marketing • Mt. Fuji • souvenirs • The Great Wave off Kanagawa • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyo-e)

Mt Fuji and Raijin and Fujin lingerie sets let you wear your love for Japan under your clothes

• Oona McGee
  Dec 24, 2022

Keep the gods of wind and thunder close to your chest.

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• Japan
• (art • artists • bras • COK • fashion • Fuji • Fujin • Fujin Raijin zu • innerwear • Katsushika Hokusai • lingerie • Mt. Fuji • Peach John • Raijin • Sotatsu Tawaraya • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyoe • underwear)

We travel to Fuji to see how they make Japanese toilet paper

• Oona McGee
  Nov 29, 2021

From recycled paper to plush multi-ply, and guess what? There’s a smartphone game for you to try too!

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• (COK • factory • factory tours • Fuji • Japanese toilets • LOL • Mt. Fuji • recycling • SNJO • toilet paper • Toilets • wtf)

Japanese idol concert goes ahead during heavy rain, creates crazy scenes for otaku near Mt Fuji

• Oona McGee
  Aug 17, 2021

Mosh pit turns into a pond but that doesn’t stop the singing and dancing.

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• (concerts • festivals • Fuji • idol fans • idol groups • Idols • Mt. Fuji • music • otaku • rain • singers • videos • viral videos • Yamanakako • Yamanashi)

Beautiful Mt Fuji photo looks like a buggy video game scene

• Oona McGee
  Jun 19, 2021

Japanese photographer shares a simple hack to achieve a surreal shot. 

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• Japan
• (art • beauty • Fuji • Mount fuji • Mt. Fuji • nature • photography • photos • rice • rice fields • rice planting • Shizuoka • twitter • ukiyoe)

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