View Mount Fuji Japan Volcano Images. Mount fuji, highest mountain in japan. It is not surprising that the nearly perfectly shaped volcano has been worshiped as a sacred mountain and experienced big popularity among artists and common people throughout the centuries.
It is a volcano that has been dormant since its last eruption (1707) but is still generally classified as active.
Mount fuji is a volcano, which geologists estimate was created 600,000 years ago during the pleistocene era. The current volcano, which erupted about ten thousand years ago, covers two older volcanos, komitake fuji and old fuji. The mountain contributes to japan's physical, cultural, and spiritual geography. The summit currently stands at 3,776 m (12,388 ft).