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[Breaking News]Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures. (Kyodo)

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Japan: Mount Fuji Gets First Snowcap of Season 3

Mount Fuji saw its first snowfall of the season on Thursday, October 23. According to the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory, this year’s first snow came 15 days earlier than last year — when it was first observed in November for the first time since records began in 1894 — but 21 days later than the seasonal average.

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Japan: Mount Fuji Gets First Snowcap of Season 2

Mount Fuji saw its first snowfall of the season on Thursday, October 23. According to the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory, this year’s first snow came 15 days earlier than last year — when it was first observed in November for the first time since records began in 1894 — but 21 days later than the seasonal average. This video was filmed inside the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train as it passed through Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Japan: Mount Fuji Gets First Snowcap of Season

Mount Fuji saw its first snowfall of the season on Thursday, October 23. According to the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory, this year’s first snow came 15 days earlier than last year — when it was first observed in November for the first time since records began in 1894 — but 21 days later than the seasonal average.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken on Oct. 23, 2025, from the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, shows the season's first snow-capped Mt. Fuji, the country's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken on Oct. 23, 2025, from the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, shows the season's first snow-capped Mt. Fuji, the country's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken on Oct. 23, 2025, from the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, shows the season's first snow-capped Mt. Fuji, the country's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Tourists view the snow-capped Mt. Fuji for the first time this season on Oct. 23, 2025, from the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken on Oct. 23, 2025, from Fujikawaguchiko town in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, shows the season's first snow-capped Mt. Fuji, the country's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

A woman views the snow-capped Mt. Fuji for the first time this season on Oct. 23, 2025, from the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Tourists view the snow-capped Mt. Fuji for the first time this season on Oct. 23, 2025, from the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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[Breaking News]Toyota's "Woven City" launched

SUSONO, Japan, Sept. 25 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the just launched first-phase zone of an experimental community called "Woven City" that Toyota Motor Corp. is building at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka on Sept. 25, 2025, envisioning the future of mobility. (Kyodo)

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Toyota's "Woven City" launched

A woman rides a three-wheel electric vehicle on Sept. 25, 2025, in the first-phase zone of Toyota Motor Corp.'s experimental "Woven City," launched at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, which the carmaker is building as a testbed for the future of mobility.

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Toyota's "Woven City" launched

A woman rides a three-wheel electric vehicle on Sept. 25, 2025, in the first-phase zone of Toyota Motor Corp.'s experimental "Woven City," launched at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, which the carmaker is building as a testbed for the future of mobility.

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Toyota's "Woven City" launched

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the just launched first-phase zone of an experimental community called "Woven City" that Toyota Motor Corp. is building at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka on Sept. 25, 2025, envisioning the future of mobility.

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Toyota's "Woven City" launched

Photo taken on Sept. 25, 2025, shows a goods delivery robot in a condominium in the just launched first-phase zone of Toyota Motor Corp.'s experimental community called "Woven City" that the carmaker is building at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka, envisioning the future of mobility.

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Toyota's "Woven City" launched

Photo taken on Sept. 25, 2025, shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s e-Palette mobile store vehicle in the just launched first-phase zone of an experimental community called "Woven City" that the carmaker is building at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka, envisioning the future of mobility.

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Toyota's "Woven City" launched

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the just launched first-phase zone of an experimental community called "Woven City" that Toyota Motor Corp. is building at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka on Sept. 25, 2025, envisioning the future of mobility.

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Toyota's "Woven City" launched

Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda declares the launch of the first-phase zone of an experimental community called "Woven City" that the carmaker is building at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka on Sept. 25, 2025, envisioning the future of mobility.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season ends

Officials close a gate at the fifth station of Mt. Fuji's Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 10, 2025, as the climbing season for Japan's highest mountain ends.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season ends

Officials install a closure sign on Mt. Fuji's Fujinomiya trail in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 10, 2025, as the climbing season for Japan's highest mountain ends.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season ends

Climbers go down Mt. Fuji's Fujinomiya trail in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 10, 2025, as the climbing season for Japan's highest mountain ends.

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Fire festival at foot of Mt. Fuji

A fire festival marking the end of the summer climbing season is held at the foot of Mt. Fuji in the Yamanashi Prefecture city of Fujiyoshida on Aug. 26, 2025. About 100 torches are lit along a 2-kilometer approach to a shrine during the festival dating back over 450 years.

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Fire festival at foot of Mt. Fuji

A fire festival marking the end of the summer climbing season is held at the foot of Mt. Fuji in the Yamanashi Prefecture city of Fujiyoshida on Aug. 26, 2025. About 100 torches are lit along a 2-kilometer approach to a shrine during the festival dating back over 450 years.

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Mt. Fuji photo spot

A tourist takes a picture of Mt. Fuji on Aug. 14, 2025, from over a 1.4-meter-high screen that was set up by authorities to prevent dangerous behavior such as jaywalking in the Yamanashi Prefecture town of Fujikawaguchiko. In May 2024, the town erected a taller screen to block the view of Mt. Fuji towering over a Lawson convenience store after the photo spot went viral and sparked a surge in foreign visitors but the latest screen, set up in early August, was low enough to allow the view.

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Mt. Fuji photo spot

Tourists take a picture of Mt. Fuji on Aug. 14, 2025, from over a 1.4-meter-high screen that was set up by authorities to prevent dangerous behavior such as jaywalking in the Yamanashi Prefecture town of Fujikawaguchiko. In May 2024, the town erected a taller screen to block the view of Mt. Fuji towering over a Lawson convenience store after the photo spot went viral and sparked a surge in foreign visitors but the latest screen, set up in early August, was low enough to allow the view.

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Mt. Fuji opens Shizuoka route

Climbers head to the top of Mt. Fuji along the Fujinomiya route on July 10, 2025, as the route in Shizuoka Prefecture on Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, opened the same day along with two other routes, following the July 1 opening of the Yamanashi Prefecture-side route. All routes are open through Sept. 10. (Kyodo), ==Kyodo

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Mt. Fuji opens Shizuoka route

Climbers head to the top of Mt. Fuji along the Fujinomiya route on July 10, 2025, as the route in Shizuoka Prefecture on Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, opened the same day along with two other routes, following the July 1 opening of the Yamanashi Prefecture-side route. All routes are open through Sept. 10. (Kyodo), ==Kyodo

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Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

TOKYO, Japan, July 1 Kyodo - Trail of lights from climbers' headlamps are seen on the Yoshida trail on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of Mt. Fuji on July 1, 2025. The trail opens the same day, meaning the start of the official climbing season for Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures. (Kyodo)

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Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

Climbers take a selfie with the sunrise atop Mt. Fuji on July 1, 2025, the day the mountain's Yoshida trail opened as the official climbing season began for Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

Climbers atop Mt. Fuji hail the sunrise on July 1, 2025, the day the mountain's Yoshida trail opened as the official climbing season began for Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

Climbers atop Mt. Fuji hail the sunrise on July 1, 2025, the day the mountain's Yoshida trail opened as the official climbing season began for Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

Trail of lights from climbers' headlamps are seen on the Yoshida trail on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of Mt. Fuji on July 1, 2025. The trail opens the same day, meaning the start of the official climbing season for Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

Trail of lights from climbers' headlamps are seen on the Yoshida trail on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of Mt. Fuji on July 1, 2025. The trail opens the same day, meaning the start of the official climbing season for Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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[Breaking News]GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

GOTEMBA, Japan, June 9 Kyodo - The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an annual live-fire artillery drill at its Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025. (Kyodo)

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GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an annual live-fire artillery drill at its Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025.

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GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an annual live-fire artillery drill at its Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025.

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GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an annual live-fire artillery drill at its Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025.

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GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an annual live-fire artillery drill at its Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025.

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GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an annual live-fire artillery drill at its Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025.

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GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an annual live-fire artillery drill at its Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025.

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GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani waves during an inspection of an annual live-fire artillery drill at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025.

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GSDF conducts artillery drill near Mt. Fuji

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducts an annual live-fire artillery drill at its Higashifuji training site near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on June 8, 2025.