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| Above, Mount Fuji as seen from an Osaka-bound Shinkansen. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
With travel to Japan seemingly opening up to those who are vaccinated next month (I'll believe it when I see it), now's the time to study what the country has to offer for vacation planning.
World Atlas has posted information on Japan's tallest mountain peak: Mount Fuji.
They start with:
Rising to an elevation of 3,776.24m, Mount Fuji - also referred to as “Fuji-san” in Japanese, is considered the tallest mountain in Japan. Mount Fuji is situated close to the Pacific coast in the Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures in the heart of the large island of Honshu, about 100km to the southwest of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. Geologists classify Mount Fuji to be an active stratovolcano, which last erupted from 1707 to 1708. The mountain is considered as the world’s 7th highest mountain peak of an island and Asia’s 2nd highest volcano that is situated on an island.
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