{"id":64857,"date":"2024-06-12T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/12\/mount-fuji-japan-sights-blocking-view-apartment-block-tear-down"},"modified":"2024-06-12T08:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:10:42","slug":"peak-japan-why-foreign-tourists-are-going-mad-for-mount-fuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64857","title":{"rendered":"Peak Japan: why foreign tourists are going mad for Mount Fuji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A developer in Japan just built a 10-storey apartment block in Tokyo but then decided to tear it down. What is going on?<\/p>\n<p>Japanese artist Hokusai famously produced a series of woodblock prints titled Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, and centuries later, the majestic mountain still captures the imagination. However, now that translates into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/02\/everyone-has-the-same-dream-mount-fuji-grapples-with-rise-in-tourism\">record numbers of tourists<\/a> eager to commemorate their visit with painstakingly staged photos.<\/p>\n<p>An unencumbered view of Fuji is something to treasure \u2013 so much so that a real estate developer this week agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20240610\/p2g\/00m\/0bu\/049000c\">tear down a nearly completed apartment block<\/a> in western Tokyo because it blocked residents\u2019 view of the mountain. Developer Sekisui House said it decided to take down the 10-storey building due to \u201cinsufficient consideration for the impact on the scenery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/12\/mount-fuji-japan-sights-blocking-view-apartment-block-tear-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A developer in Japan just built a 10-storey apartment block in Tokyo but then decided to tear it down. What is going on?Japanese artist Hokusai famously produced a series of woodblock prints titled Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, and centuries later, t&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64857","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=64857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64858,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64857\/revisions\/64858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}