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