Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan) Rising to 3,776 meters (12,388 feet) above central Honshu, Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan, the country’s most famous volcano, and one of the most recognizable mountains on Earth. Known in Japanese as Fujisan, its immense symmetrical cone rises above the boundary between Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, dominating a …