{"id":64979,"date":"2024-06-17T23:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/17\/mount-fuji-crowd-control-gate-limit-tourists"},"modified":"2024-06-17T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:23:15","slug":"governor-installs-crowd-control-gate-on-mount-fuji-to-limit-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64979","title":{"rendered":"Governor installs crowd control gate on Mount Fuji to limit tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yamanashi prefecture brings in modest hiking fee to stop \u2018bullet climbing\u2019 and address safety concerns<\/p>\n<p>A crowd-control gate has been installed halfway up Mount Fuji before the start of this year\u2019s climbing season on 1 July, but the governor of Yamanashi, one of the two prefectures that are home to the mountain, said additional measures were needed to control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/12\/mount-fuji-japan-sights-blocking-view-apartment-block-tear-down\">overcrowding on its lower slopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The gate was completed on Monday as part of a set of measures being introduced this year to address growing safety, environmental and overcrowding problems on Japan\u2019s highest and best-known mountain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/17\/mount-fuji-crowd-control-gate-limit-tourists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yamanashi prefecture brings in modest hiking fee to stop \u2018bullet climbing\u2019 and address safety concernsA crowd-control gate has been installed halfway up Mount Fuji before the start of this year\u2019s climbing season on 1 July, but the governor of Yamanashi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2342,"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":[41,88,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-travel","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\/64979","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\/2342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64980,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64979\/revisions\/64980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}