Direct bus services connecting Mishima Station in the city of Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, and the fifth station of Mount ...

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force held its annual live-fire exercises at the foot of Mount Fuji in central Japan on Sunday.

The Yamanashi prefectural government on Thursday pushed for the construction of a rubber-tired tram line ascending halfway up ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the stunning landscapes of Shizuoka Prefecture and Suruga Bay, Japan, in this ...

The man behind the visor is Akio Toyoda, the 69-year-old grandson of Toyota’s founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, and the company’s most powerful executive since 2009. Several years before taking over the ...

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Despite being designed to attract tourists, the Mt Fuji Dream Bridge is facing backlash from locals overwhelmed by the surge ...

Fuji dream bridge" in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, was envisioned as a ... for appearing to lead directly up the 3,776-metre mountain, Japan's tallest. Zhu Yihao, a visitor from Shanghai, China ...

A local government’s decision in Japan to promote a bridge ... The location known as “Mount Fuji dream bridge” in Fuji, Shizuoka prefecture, was envisioned as a tourist draw that would ...

Being located at the foot of Mount Fuji is a source of pride for the Shizuoka Prefecture town of Fujinomiya and its residents. That proximity to Japan’s tallest and most famous mountain, though, has ...

The central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka, which has a trail to Mount Fuji, has enacted an ordinance amid risky behavior by some climbers. The new ordinance requires each hiker to pay an ...

TOKYO — A climber was rescued twice in one week from Japan’s Mount Fuji after he went ... Police in Japan’s Shizuoka prefecture were alerted that he had returned Saturday when another ...