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Tourists looking to climb Mount Fuji will now have to pay a 2,000 yen ($13) fee per climber for entry. There will also be a cap of 4,000 visitors allowed to scale the mountain per day.
A text of the 9th century, Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, says that the name came from "immortal" (不死, fushi, fuji) and also from the image of abundant (富, fu) soldiers (士, shi, ji) [note 1] ascending the slopes of the mountain. [9] An early folk etymology claims that Fuji came from 不二 (not + two), meaning without equal or nonpareil.
This station is for day hikers just looking around and may not have any wish to make it to the summit. Thousands climb Mt. Fuji during this two-month period. Most climb during the night to watch the sun rise in the morning. The best time to leave the 5th station to reach the summit is 9:00pm. This is a non stop hike to the 8th or 9th station.
November is just a few days away, but Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji remains snowless, marking the latest date without a snowcap since records began 130 years ago.
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park was established on February 2, 1936, as Fuji-Hakone National Park, and is one of the first four national parks established in Japan. In 1950, the Izu islands were added to the park, a change that also reflected in the park's revised name.
Mount Fuji remains snowless in late October, the latest in the year that the famous mountain has gone without snow for at least 130 years, when records began.