38+ Is Mount Fuji A Dormant Volcano Background. The mountain is the major feature of mount fuji is a very distinctive feature of the geography of japan. Mount fuji, highest mountain in japan.
It is also a volcano.
Mount fuji is a dormant volcano, which most recently erupted in 1707. It stands on the border between yamanashi and shizuoka prefectures and can be seen from tokyo and yokohama, and sometimes as far as chiba, saitama, and lake hamana when the sky is clear. The current volcano, which erupted about ten thousand years ago, covers two older volcanos, komitake fuji and old fuji. Fuji, although generally envisaged as a single mountain, actually consists of three distinct volcanoes.