Mount Fuji, Japan
Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak at 3,776 m, stands on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures. It is a symmetrical active volcano that last erupted in 1707. A symbol of Japan and long an object of worship and of poetry and painting, it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2013 as “Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration”.
