![Uncredited Workers set up a gate at the 5th station for a trail to Mt. Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan Monday, June 17, 2024. The crowd-control gate was installed halfway up the slope on Japan's iconic Mount Fuji on Monday ahead of the July 1 start of the climbing season. (Kyodo News via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/9fa493db37c34e21a8d72f9b7eef1b23/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Workers set up a gate at the 5th station for a trail to Mt. Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan Monday, June 17, 2024. The crowd-control gate was installed halfway up the slope on Japan's iconic Mount Fuji on Monday ahead of the July 1 start of the climbing season. (Kyodo News via AP)
![Uncredited A gate at the 5th station for a trail to Mt. Fuji, is set up in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan Monday, June 17, 2024. The crowd-control gate was installed halfway up the slope on Japan's iconic Mount Fuji on Monday ahead of the July 1 start of the climbing season. (Kyodo News via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/2e2405eda4b04c8e858449433684f344/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A gate at the 5th station for a trail to Mt. Fuji, is set up in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan Monday, June 17, 2024. The crowd-control gate was installed halfway up the slope on Japan's iconic Mount Fuji on Monday ahead of the July 1 start of the climbing season. (Kyodo News via AP)
![Eugene Hoshiko Kotaro Nagasaki, governor of the Yamanashi Prefecture, speaks on the overcrowding tourism at Mount Fuji during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan Monday, June 17, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/f5fe81d0ca574a09ba19d470b19d445c/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Kotaro Nagasaki, governor of the Yamanashi Prefecture, speaks on the overcrowding tourism at Mount Fuji during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan Monday, June 17, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
![Eugene Hoshiko Kotaro Nagasaki, governor of the Yamanashi Prefecture, speaks on the overcrowding tourism at Mount Fuji during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Monday, June 17, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/5a64ef525cb84715a45ceb8018bd9fca/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Kotaro Nagasaki, governor of the Yamanashi Prefecture, speaks on the overcrowding tourism at Mount Fuji during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Monday, June 17, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)