Mount Fuji, which Europeans wrongly like to call Fuji in Japan is a respectful name Fuji-san.

The mountain is a sacred site for many Japanese, is located on its top Shinto shrine, which owns a large part of Fuji - the territory of the level of 3350 meters up to the top of the mountain. In comparison, the state controls the only weather station here also located on the top, but hiking trails. The government is trying to win the right to ownership for as many as 17 years, but to no avail.

Also do not forget that Fuji - this operating stratovolcano, though not particularly active at the present time it erupted for the last time in the 1707-1708 year, and it was the most powerful of its eruption. In general, a 781 year Fuji has erupted 12 times. The height of the volcano - 3776 meters, and is the highest point of Japan. On a clear day the volcano can be seen from a distance of 90 kilometers. Approximately at this distance is relatively Fuji Tokyo.

According to seismologists, the volcanic activity in this place began many hundreds of thousands of years ago. As a result, the first eruptions of the volcano Komitake first appeared, but before him there were restless. Subsequent eruptions formed the "old Fuji," which lies at the basis of the "young Fuji", which appeared more than 10 thousand years ago. In Japanese mythology about education Fuji has a different opinion: that there was a mountain of earth thrown from the place where, in 286 BC there was the biggest in Japan's Lake Biwa freshwater. Fuji has always been home to the gods, the gateway to the underworld, as well as one of the Earth's axis.

Pilgrims and tourists are still eager to climb to the top of Mount Fuji. This possibility exists only in the summer, when there is no snow on top. In the Edo period the device of ascent takes about 800 organizations across Japan. If the Middle Ages had to conquer the mountain on foot, now part of the journey can be done by bus - to the level of 2300 meters, and then still have to go on foot.

In July and August, on the slopes of Mount Fuji rescue work items, mountain huts yamagoya, where you can buy provisions and night. On the north side to the fifth level (2300 meters) and restaurants and parking.

The area surrounding the mountain, part of the National Park Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It is also the resort of "Fuji Five Lakes."