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Japan's Mount Fuji will a World Heritage Site in June. The United Nations (U.N.) on April the 30th to the famous mountain UNESCO World Heritage status. The U.N. team that the decision said Fuji was very important to Japanese religion and art. They also that the 3,776-meter-high volcano was important outside of Japan too. Fuji-san (as Japanese people it) has a sacred mountain for more than 1,000 years. Priests say that when you it, you move from the "everyday world" at the bottom, to the "world of gods, Buddha and death" at the top. They people can wash away their sins by climbing to the top and back down again.

Mount Fuji is a major tourist destination. It is very popular with hikers, who want to see the sun from its peak. More than 318,000 hikers the mountain last summer, with up to 15,000 people each day. Local residents are now the World Heritage status will more visitors. That means there will be more litter and environmental problems. The local government may ask people to to climb the mountain to help its beauty. Governor Shomei Yokouchi said: “It’s likely we’ll ask mountain climbers to financially with keeping the mountain clean." Another idea being about is to limit the daily number of hikers to the top.