over tourisme in Japan op haar meest heilige berg Mount Fuji

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Hallstatt – which has about 800 permanent residents and has as many as 10,000 tourists a day in peak season – erected a wooden fence in May 2023 as a deterrent against selfie-takers.

In an effort to mitigate the overcrowding, Yamanashi’s prefectural government announced several new policies for tourists, including a 4,000-person daily limit for hikers and a mandatory fee of 2,000 yen ($13) apiece. Previously, the fee had been optional.

Japan has been experiencing overtourism issues since reopening post-pandemic in late 2022. March 2024 was the country’s all-time biggest tourism month ever, with more than three million foreign tourists entering the country.

Many of them head straight to Mount Fuji, an icon of Japan and a UNESCO World Heritage site, leaving garbage and causing erosion along the way.