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🗻 Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing Mount Fuji and its 25 cultural components


🕐 3 min read · Updated 1 Apr 2026 at 07:11

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📌 Fast Facts
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2013
  • Comprises 25 components including Mount Fuji's summit, 25 shrines and temples, lakes, and natural landscapes
  • Stratovolcano standing 3,776 metres (12,388 feet) above sea level
  • Sacred site in Shinto and Buddhist traditions for centuries of pilgrimage and worship

Mount Fuji, known as Fujisan, is Japan's iconic stratovolcano and one of the country's most culturally significant natural ...

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