Mount Fuji
Mountain
Japan's highest mountain is a sleeping volcano.
Mount Fuji rises 3,776 metres above the sea, about 100 kilometres from Tokyo. On a clear day you can see its snowy top from the city.
It is a volcano, but a quiet one: the last eruption was in 1707. For many people in Japan the mountain is a sacred place, and it has been painted and photographed more often than anything else in the country.
- high
- 3,776 m
- last eruption
- 1707
- lakes at its foot
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The climbing season is short: the paths to the top are only open in summer, from early July to early September.
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Many climbers walk through the night so they can watch the sun rise from the summit.
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Fuji is almost a perfect cone, which is why you recognise it at once.
Question 1 of 2
When did Mount Fuji last erupt?
- Fushimi Inari ShrineA path up a hill in Kyoto, under thousands of bright red gates.
- Great Wall of ChinaNot one wall but many, built over two thousand years.
- Forbidden CityThe palace of China's emperors, closed to ordinary people for five hundred years.
- YangtzeThe longest river in Asia cuts China in two.
It is in Japan.
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