{"id":62387,"date":"2024-03-06T13:45:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/mount-fuji-hikers-will-be-forced-to-pay-to-climb-popular-route-to-summit"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:45:51","slug":"mount-fuji-hikers-will-be-forced-to-pay-to-climb-popular-route-to-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62387","title":{"rendered":"Mount Fuji hikers will be forced to pay to climb popular route to summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congestion charge comes amid boom in tourism that has put pressure on infrastructure and increased potential for accidents<\/p>\n<p>People hoping to ascend Mount Fuji along its most popular route will be charged \u00a52,000 (\u00a310.50, $13.35, A$20.50) when the climbing season starts in the summer, as local authorities try to ease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/02\/everyone-has-the-same-dream-mount-fuji-grapples-with-rise-in-tourism\">congestion<\/a> fuelled by Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/03\/a-free-for-all-japan-divided-as-return-of-tourists-brings-instagrammers-and-litter\">tourism boom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trails leading up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s highest mountain \u2013 a Unesco world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/heritage\">heritage<\/a> site since 2013 \u2013 are becoming increasingly overcrowded, prompting concern over littering and \u201cbullet ascents\u201d, in which often inexperienced climbers try to scale the 3,776-metre peak without resting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/mount-fuji-hikers-will-be-forced-to-pay-to-climb-popular-route-to-summit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congestion charge comes amid boom in tourism that has put pressure on infrastructure and increased potential for accidentsPeople hoping to ascend Mount Fuji along its most popular route will be charged \u00a52,000 (\u00a310.50, $13.35, A$20.50) when the climbing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62387\/revisions\/62388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}