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FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan (AP) The town of Fujikawaguchiko has had enough of tourists..
She isn't unhappy though 80% of her customers are foreign visitors whose numbers have surged after a pandemic hiatus that kept Japan closed for about two years..
Fujikawaguchiko has tried other methods: signs urging visitors not to run into the road and to use the designated crosswalk in English, Chinese, Thai and Korean, and even hiring a security guard as crowd control..
The black mesh net, when completed in mid-May, will be 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) high and 20 meters (65.6 feet) long, and will almost completely block the view of Mount Fuji, officials said..
Yoshihiko Ogawa, who runs a more than half-century-old rice shop in the Fujikawaguchiko area, said the overcrowding worsened in the past few months, with tourists gathering from around 4-5 a.m..
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