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FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan — On a grey, rainy Saturday a steady stream of tour buses arrive at a base station of Japan's Mount Fuji depositing dozens of lightly dressed foreign tourists in front of souvenir shops and restaurants. The scene evokes a theme park image, not the veneration most Japanese would expect below the 3,776-metre mountain worshipped as sacred by the...

Overcrowding in the mountain has worsened, with Subaru, the fifth and largest base station, had about 4 million visitors this summer, a 50% jump from 2013

On a grey, rainy Saturday a steady stream of tour buses arrive at a base station of Japan's Mount Fuji depositing dozens of lightly dressed foreign tourists in front of souvenir shops and restaurants. Mt Fuji, which straddles Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures in eastern Japan, has always been popular with local and overseas tourists.

With its millions of visitors every year and the buses, supply trucks, noodle shops and fridge magnets, Japan's Mount Fuji is no longer ...

In Japan, officials are complaining that too many visitors are abusing the sacred Mt. Fuji. A regular stream of tour buses arrive at a base station of Mt.