Mount Fuji's Cultural Legacy

Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano. UNESCO says it inspired artists for centuries. Centuries is a long gallery run.

A shrine at the foothills wards off eruptions. Worshippers began climbing in the Heian period.

By the early 12th century, Matsudai Shonin founded a temple on the summit.

Artists and pilgrims have long revered this place.

An Edo period cult called Fuji-kō venerated the mountain as a female deity.

Hokusai depicted the mountain in woodblock prints from the 1830s.

UNESCO added the mountain to the World Heritage List on June 22, 2013. Twenty-five reasons to visit.

The Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha shrine is one of these locations.