10+ Mount Fuji Dormant Background. This is a perfectly shaped mountain and japanese have been worshipping mount fuji for ages and a large volume of folklore has evolved. Mount fuji, highest mountain in japan.
It lies 100 kilometres, southwest of tokyo.
Mount fuji is 1 of the 3 holy mountains, along with mount tate and mount haku. Today, the snowcapped peak of mount fuji has become one of. The current volcano, which erupted about ten thousand years ago, covers two older volcanos, komitake fuji and old fuji. Mount fuji is actually a volcano (a dormant one, at that) that last erupted some 300 years ago.