Anybody in good conditions can reach the top, but bring warm clothes, flashlight and rainwear since the weather at the top is unpredictable and extremely cold and windy (if you want to see the sunrise, then prepare to feel the cold). A long medium-hard climb, occasionally with rocks and steep areas. Mount Fuji attracts more than a million tourists each year to the mountain and surrounding towns, approximately 300,000 of whom will make the climb to the Fuji top.Įven though it may not be the prettiest mountain to climb in Japan (check japanese northern alps or Kamikochi), it is indeed the most famous one. Its image has been reproduced countless times in Japanese art. Among Japanese there is a sense of personal identification with the mountain, and each summer thousands of Japanese climb to the shrine on its peak. The mountain, with its graceful conical form, has become famous throughout the world and is considered the sacred symbol of Japan. The mountain is the major feature of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park (1936), and it is at the centre of a UNESCO World Heritage site designated in 2013. It is a volcano that has been dormant since its last eruption, in 1707, but is still generally classified as active by geologists. Mount Fuji (富士山, Fuji-san) is the highest mountain in Japan which rises to 12,388 feet (3,776 metres) near the Pacific Ocean coast in Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures of central Honshu, about 60 miles (100 km) west of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area and can be seen from those cities on clear days. I visited after a spell of no heavy rains or typhoons washing debris into the Pacific Ocean, so waves rolling in from Suruga Bay were a beautiful, clear, bluish green. Mostly likely, the light on top of the marker flashes during rough seas to either aid ship navigation or to prevent ships from running aground. There was also an old, rusty marker that stood about chest-high atop large concrete “cubes” that are about the size of a small car and are lined up to form a bulkhead along a portion of the coastline that is jutting out into the sea. Fuji, you can see old things such as chains on top of concrete breakwater blocks that line a portion of the coast that sticks farthest out into the ocean. Further down the beach as you walk towards Mt. Fuji, which is much better when she has a snow on the peak.

In the evening, the setting sun will cast a nice glow on the peak of Mt.

We can also enjoy crashing waves at high-tide. Fuji off in the distance (43.56 km/27.06 mi north-north-east). The beach offers nice photo-shoot opportunities, such as driftwood on the shore of Miho-no-Matsubara Beach in Shizuoka Prefecture with Mt.

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