Cleaning up alpine environments and assistance to cover the operating costs of safety measures (grants for upgrading mountain lavatories)
1. Outline of subsidies
A program to provide assistance to cover the costs of building mountain hut lavatories was begun in 1999 in response to environment problems occurred in the late 1990s at Mt. Fuji caused by the huge amount of trash and human waste deposits.
This assistance program provides grants equal to half the costs of constructing mountain hut lavatories inside Natural Parks, subject to limits on estimated costs.
2. Parties entitled to receive assistance
Prefectural governments and municipal governments that wish to carry out a relevant project inside a Natural Park and private sector businesses that build and equip mountain huts
3. Facilities for which assistance may be extended
- Mountain hut lavatories (including power-generating facilities)
- Waste separation and disposition facilities (kitchen garbage disposal, empty can disposers, incinerators)
- Emergency medical treatment facilities, evacuation rooms
4. Criteria for accepting a request submitted to this assistance program (all points must be satisfied)
- Mountain hut lavatories (including power-generating facilities)
- Waste separation and disposition facilities (kitchen garbage disposal, empty can disposers, incinerators)
- Emergency medical treatment facilities, evacuation rooms
5. Record of lavatories construction
81 facilities have been developed or upgraded (between 1999 and 2006)
Hikers converge on a certain mountain.
Unprocessed human waste deposits lay discharged in the open (on Mt. Fuji).
(White sedimentation consists of undecomposed toilet paper.)
A mountain hut lavatory built
using assistance funds.
(Sawdust-type human
waste-disposal facility)
Inside a lavatory
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