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Where to go in Japan: Mt. Fuji
The highest mountain in Japan with a conical shape. The center of mountain worship for centuries.
Mt. Fuji is 3,776m high and is the highest mountain in Japan situated at the border of southeastern Yamanashi and Shizuoka. With its unrivaled magnificence and beautiful conic shape, Mt. Fuji has often been selected as the subject for paintings and literature. It is the world famous symbol of Japan.
At the foot of Mt. Fuji, there are the Five Lakes of Fuji, the Aoki-ga-hara Sea of Forest that is dark even during the day, as well as Kitaguchi-Hongu Fuji-Sengen Shrine that was constructed to calm the eruption of Mt. Fuji. The Fire Festival of Yoshida, held at the end of the year as a ritual of closing the climbing season for Mt. Fuji, is one of the three most peculiar festivals in Japan.
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