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JNTO Website | Find a Location | Shizuoka | Mt. Fuji (286 words) |
 | Fuji is 3,776m high and is the highest mountain in Japan situated at the border of southeastern Yamanashi and Shizuoka. |
 | At the foot of Mt. Fuji, there are the Five Lakes of Fuji, the Aoki-ga-hara Sea of Forest that is dark even during the day, as well as Kitaguchi-Hongu Fuji-Sengen Shrine that was constructed to calm the eruption of Mt. Fuji. |
 | Fuji has long been the center for the mountain worship of ancient Japan. |
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Fuji District, Shizuoka - encyclopedia article about Fuji District, Shizuoka. (1431 words) |
 | Fuji (富士郡; -gun) is a district The district (郡; gun) was most recently used as an administrative unit in Japan between 1878 and 1921 and is roughly equivalent to the county of the United States. |
 | Shizuoka Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture (静岡県; Shizuoka-ken) is located in the Chubu region on Honshu island, Japan. |
 | Shizuoka Shizuoka(静岡市) (静岡市; -shi) is the capital and the most populous city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. |