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Local mayor fundamentally opposed to Mt. Fuji rail line plans
February 11, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Mount Fuji is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter flying over Shizuoka Prefecture. (Mainichi) KOFU The mayor of a city at the foot of Mount Fuji has expressed strong opposition to Yamanashi Prefecture s proposed Mount Fuji railway, after the plan received approval by a review committee. The plan, promoted by the prefecture, envisions a next-generation streetcar line being installed on the Fuji Subaru Line toll road from the foot of the mountain in the prefecture west of Tokyo to Mount Fuji s fifth station. At a regular press conference on Feb. 10, Shigeru Horiuchi, mayor of the prefectural city of Fujiyoshida, said he was skeptical of the line s necessity, and added, I am fundamentally opposed to it.