or Fujiyama Japanese Fuji-san
Mountain, central Japan .
The highest mountain in Japan, it rises to 12,388 ft (3,776 m) near the Pacific coast in central Honshu . Mount Fuji, with its graceful volcanic cone (dormant since 1707), has become famous internationally. It is considered a sacred symbol of Japan, and thousands of Japanese climb to the shrine on its peak every summer. The mountain is the major feature of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, created in 1936.