View Mount Fuji Shape Gif. Mount fuji is the tallest mountain in japan, standing at 3,776 meters (12,380 feet). It is an active volcano, sitting on a triple junction of tectonic activity:
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One day, mount hoei erupts from the side of mount fuji and strikes a quiet village. The process of forming the mountain that we know today as mount fuji began several hundred thousand years ago with the eruptions of the mount hakone and mount komitake volcanoes. Mount fuji is a symbol of japan. Fuji has a very distinctive cone shape, which is very unusual for a volcano.