Millions visit Japan’s highest peak each year, creating pollution and putting pressure on medical centre
While it still inspires awe, especially when viewed from a distance, Fuji is attracting huge numbers of visitors, who risk adding the mountain to a growing list of victims of tourism pollution, fromMore than 2.3 million people visited the 2,400-metre-high fifth stage – with a smaller number continuing to the 10th and highest stage – in 2012, according to the local government in Yamanashi, one of two prefectures straddled by the mountain.
They planned to continue to the seventh stage and rest overnight before reaching the summit to witness the sunrise. “You come to places like this to experience nature, and if there are too many people, where is the beauty in that?” said van der Akker. “We need a shift from quantity to quality when it comes to tourism on Mount Fuji,” Nagasaki said this week.
Aside from twisted ankles, cuts and bruises, the centre treats people who have not reckoned with the thinner air, who arrive suffering from chest pains, breathing problems, and occasionally life-threatening conditions. “We’ve had about five cases in which people needed to be taken to hospital already this season,” Hama said.
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