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Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano on Honshu and, at 3,776 metres, the highest mountain in Japan. Long revered as sacred and depicted by artists such as Hokusai, it last erupted in the Hōei eruption of 1707, which buried surrounding farmland, including much of the Odawara Domain, in ash. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013.

Mount Fuji
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