Vacationers have returned to Mount Fuji. Is that sustainable?

Customer numbers at Mount Fuji steadily returned to pre-pandemic ranges this summer time, as evidenced by the continual arrival of buses on the mountain’s base station in Yamanashi Prefecture, and the vacationers exploring the memento outlets and eating places there.

Straddling the border of Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, the three,776-meter Mount Fuji, which closed for the season on Sept. 10, has lengthy been a well-liked vacation spot for each home and worldwide vacationers.

However Yamanashi Gov. Kotaro Nagasaki is extra involved than completely happy concerning the return of vacationers, saying the UNESCO World Heritage website is dealing with a “disaster.”