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Mount Fuji: The Complete Guide — 2.6 Million Years of Eruptions, Five Lakes, and Everything to See Around Japan's Active Volcano
Mount Fuji has erupted 18 times in recorded history, last in 1707, and is still classified as an active volcano. A complete guide to its 2.6-million-year story, the five lakes created by its lava, the shrines built to calm its fire, the climbing routes, and the painters who turned its triangular silhouette into Japan's most recognizable image.
Chureito Pagoda: The Most Photographed View of Mount Fuji Is a War Memorial Built in 1962
The vermillion five-story pagoda framing Mount Fuji is on every Japan postcard and Lonely Planet cover. Almost nobody knows it was built in 1962 as a war memorial — or that the famous viewpoint is exactly 398 steps from a small parking lot in Fujiyoshida. Here is everything you need to actually visit.
Mount Fuji's Five Lakes: One Eruption, One Broken Lake, Five Reflections of the Same Volcano
Twelve hundred years ago, a single eruption from Mount Fuji split one large lake into five. Those five lakes — Kawaguchiko, Yamanakako, Saiko, Shōjiko, Motosuko — are now Japan's most photographed view of the volcano. Here's which one to visit, what each one shows you, and the story behind why they exist.