The data on climbers to Japan's "hyakumeizan" or 100 famous mountains showed the number in the three-month period fell 34 percent in the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu and 32 percent on the island of Hokkaido from the same period in 2024. The overall decline across the 100 mountains nationwide was 18 percent.Ahead of Mountain Day, a national holiday on Tuesday, Tokyo-based IT company Uneri Inc. and Kyodo News analyzed three years of smartphone location data, focusing on people who came within 500 meters of the summits. The data were collected from smartphone apps with users' consent.I…READ FULL ARTICLE
