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🗻 Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing Mount Fuji and its spiritual landscape


🕐 3 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 15:36

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

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  • Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013
  • 25 components including the 3,776 m summit, shrines, temples, lakes, and springs
  • Sacred mountain in Shinto and Buddhist traditions for centuries
  • Fuji Five Lakes (Kawaguchiko, Yamanakako, Saiko, Shojiko, Motosuko) form part of the heritage site

Fujisan, or Mount Fuji, is a stratovolcano and cultural icon deeply embedded in Japanese spiritual life, artistic tradition ...

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