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Mount Fuji
Standing at 3,776 meters (12,389 ft), Mount Fuji is the highest point in Japan and one of the country's "Three Holy Mountains".
This mountain, which lies southwest of Tokyo, is actually an active stratovolcano which last erupted in the early 1700s.
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