41+ Mount Fuji Fastest Ascent Summer PNG. Mount fuji has been a sacred site for practicers of shinto since at least the 7th century. Mount fuji is the single most popular tourist site in japan, for both japanese and foreign tourists.
Mount fuji is still considered an active volcano.
Trekking mount fuji is popular amongst locals and tourists. Every summer, thousands of people gather on the slopes of mount fuji and climb skyward to meet grasping the true breadth and magnitude of mount fuji's cultural significance is a nearly impossible they believed one could cross the boundary between the sacred and profane on the ascent, and then. The current volcano, which erupted about ten thousand years ago, covers two older volcanos, komitake fuji and old fuji. In august, a friend and i climbed mt fuji.