Mount Fuji, Fujisan in Japanese, is Japan's highest mountain rising to 3776 meters. In fact. Mount Fuji is a dormant volcono which last erupted in 1707. This is a perfectly shaped mountain and Japanese have been worshipping Mount Fuji for ages and a large volume of folklore has evolved about it ove a period of time. Presently it is a popular tourist destination and many people from Japan as well as from many other places of the world come here for sight seeing, as also for climbing the mountain.