Mount Fuji in Japan

Mount Fuji is Japan's highest mountain with a rising 3.776 meters above sea level it is written by jepang.net


peak of the snow-capped Mount Fuji can be seen from Yokohama, Tokyo, and even as far as Chiba and Saitama until when the weather was sunny again.

According to the history of Japan, Mount Fuji was first climbed by an unknown monk in the year 663, long before you were born. While the first foreigner to climb it was Sir Rutherford Alcock of England in September 1860.

Before the Meiji era, women are forbidden to climb Mount Fuji because the peak is considered so sacred that is always used as a place of prayer and people of Shinto and Buddhist meditation.

One of the three sacred mountains (the mountain after mountain Tate and Haku) who is highly respected by the Japanese population has also become a major attraction for foreign tourists with the arrival of 300 000 climbers in 2008.

Mount Fuji is surrounded by five lakes (Kawaguchi, Yamanaka, Sai, Motosu, Shoji) and forest Aokigahara that wrapped the foot of Mount Fuji. Everything then became part of the National Park Fuji-Hakone-Izu protected by the Japanese government.

From the first does not cost anything to be paid the visitors to climb Mount Fuji, but Shigeru Horiuchi, Fuji-Yoshida mayor in Yamanashi prefecture, plans to impose tariffs of 500 s / d 1.000 yen to improve, increase and maintain the cleanliness of the means there.

Until now Mount Fuji is still considered active or it could erupt anytime and last erupted in 1707.
There is a famous sentence in Japan:

"Anyone who does not want to climb Mount Fuji once is a fool - but only a fool would climb it twice."