Mount Fuji, Japan

Mount Fuji, Japan


Mount Fuji (Fujisan) is with 3776 meters Japan's highest mountain. It is not surprising that the nearly perfectly shaped volcano has been worshipped as a sacred mountain and experienced big popularity among artists and common people.

Mount Fuji is a dormant volcano, which most recently erupted in 1708. It stands on the border between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures and can be seen from Tokyo and Yokohama onclear days.

Mount Fuji on a clear spring day,
Mount Fuji, Japan
Originally uploaded by Samurai Shiatsu

Facts about japan:Is this really Japan ?

Is this really Japan ?
Originally uploaded by Monkey D Lueffy

Is this really Japan ?

Yes it is the liberty Station and yes it is Japan. In fact this statue is the french twin of the New York Famous one. The statue was lend to Japan one year and they put it in Odaiba. Behind is the rainbow bridge, one of the biggest bridge of Japan (except the one that tied Shikoku and Honshu near Kobe).