35+ Mount Fuji Overcrowded Images. Garbage accumulates at the peak, even though each year 40,000 to 50,000 volunteers pick up trash, with. Mount fuji is on standby for the next eruption, said hiroki kamata, a professor of volcanology at kyoto university.
Mount fuji has attracted so many tourists trying to catch a glimpse of the dazzling sunrise on the summit that multiple complaints of overcrowding have been lodged.
Two years ago, japan today declared that mount fuji was at the breaking point. since 2013, climbing has been limited to a brief window in late summer to protect tourists unprepared for fickle. Mount fuji is in a national park, straddles two prefectures and is surrounded by five lakes and many towns, including kawaguchiko. The amurian plate (associated with the eurasian tectonic plate), the okhotsk plate (associated with the north american. Many people find climbing mt.