Japanese town overrun with tourists puts up view-blocking barrier near Mount Fuji | CNN
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The Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko has erected a giant black net to block views of Mount Fuji, a reaction to the town’s huge popularity on Instagram and other social media platforms.

The Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko has erected a giant black net to block views of Mount Fuji, a reaction to the town’s huge popularity on Instagram and other social media platforms.

“It is regrettable that we had to take such measures,” a local official told CNN last month, when the town’s council decided to block the most popular Fuji views with a 66-foot-long (20-meter) black screen, which was erected on May 21.

The small town in Yamanashi prefecture has become the center of an international controversy in recent weeks. A specific viewpoint in Fujikawaguchiko, which is at the foot of Mount Fuji and near the starting point for one of the most-used trails up the mountain, became so popular with visitors that it was causing problems for locals.

  • tigeruppercutEnglish
    137·
    25 days ago

    Fujikawaguchiko

    The town is called (Mt) Fuji River Mouth Lake… feels like when they established the place they could’ve edited it down a bit to make it roll off the tongue better. It’d be like a town in the US called Shastaportsmouthpond

    • Meron35@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      25 days ago

      Fujikawaguchiko is just the official name, most refer to it as Kawaguchiko (this is the main train station there).

      Not that unusual in English either, e.g. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stratford-upon-Avon.