One missing climber from Tokyo snapped photos from the summit and sent them to his family, national broadcaster NHK said.

Every year, around 220,000 people come to climb Mount Fuji ... Specifically, I’m in the Fuji Five Lakes, two hours’ drive from Tokyo, an area popular with city-dwellers in search of nature.

Given Mount Fuji’s location so close to Tokyo, the disaster would affect both the local infrastructure and the daily functioning of the capital and its surrounding areas.

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities said Monday.

Japanese authorities have issued guidance on how the public should respond if the famous Mount Fuji volcano, near Tokyo ... volcanic ashfall across a broad area, including the capital region ...

overlap and spoil the view of Mount Fuji, which can be seen from the length of Fujimi-dori street, which extends southwest from Kunitachi Station, and its surrounding area. In response ...