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Mount Fuji as seen from the air and from the window of a bullet train, 2014 Fuji in early summer seen from the International Space Station (May 2001) Mount Fuji is a very distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) tall and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just southwest of Tokyo.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ckb.wikipedia.org چیای فوجی; Usage on id.wikipedia.org Gunung Fuji; Usage on ja.wikipedia.org
Weisshorn (4,507 m) / Its first ascent popularised mountain climbing culture Eiger Switzerland: 3,967 362: 3,605 Mönch (4,099 m) / Famed for its dangerous North face climb Pidurutalagala Sri Lanka: 2,524 2,524: 0 Mount Pico Portugal: 2,351 2,351: 0 none/ HP Portugal, HP Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Moldoveanu Romania: 2,544 2,046: 498 Făgăraș Mountains
The climbing season this year on Mount Fuji, which straddles the prefectures of Yamanashi and Shizuoka about 136 km (85 miles) from Tokyo, runs until September 10, after which the weather gets too ...
The new rules for the climbing season, starting July 1 to Sept. 10, apply for those hiking the Yoshida Trail on the Yamanashi side of the 3,776 meter- (nearly 12,300 feet-) high mountain that was ...
Of Mount Fuji’s 10 hiking stations, the fifth (called “Gogome”) is located roughly halfway up the 3,776-meter (12,388-foot) mountain. It receives 90% of the mountain’s visitors, most whom ...
Mount Fuji (3,776 m; 12,388 ft) from Asagiri-kōgen. 100 Famous Japanese Mountains (日本百名山, Nihon Hyaku-meizan) is a book written in 1964 by mountaineer and author Kyūya Fukada. [1] The list has been the topic of NHK documentaries, and other hiking books.
Fujizuka (富士塚) are small mounds, commonly found in and around Tokyo, which represent Mount Fuji. During the Edo period (1603–1868), a cult arose around the mountain, one of whose major devotional rites was to climb to the peak. Pilgrims who were unable through age, infirmity or gender to climb Mount Fuji would ascend one of these ...