This week, though, the town has begun constructing a large, black screen on a stretch of a sidewalk to block the view of the mountain. The reason? Misbehaving foreign tourists. “Kawaguchiko is a ...

The black plastic sheet, 20 meters long and 2.5 meters high, was placed between the road in front of Lawson’s Kawaguchiko Ekimae store and the sidewalk of the opposite side on May 21.

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Yamanashi Prefecture ... They also changed the screen’s color from black to brown to better blend with the scenery. The combination of the screen installation and local ...