Following the listing of Mt. Fuji as a World Cultural Heritage site, people climbing the mountain from July 25 to Aug. 3 will be asked on a trial basis to pay a voluntary entrance fee of 1,000 yen (S$13) per person, it has been learned.
The decision was made Friday by a working group of a joint council of the Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectural governments on Mt. Fuji's World Cultural Heritage registration.
Climbers will be asked to pay the fee voluntarily to support preservation of the mountain.
The fee will be collected on both the Yamanashi and Shizuoka sides of the mountain: near the safety instruction centre at the sixth station on the Yamanashi side route, and near the fifth station at each of the three climb routes on the Shizuoka side. Officials from both prefectural governments will collect the fee from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Those who pay will be given a receipt and a metal badge as a souvenir. Collection of the fee may not take place every day during the period, according to the council.
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