Fujisan towers above the major Tokyo-Osaka highway along the Pacific coast in southern Shizuoka Prefecture. Hoeisan is the smaller cone on the SE flank (to the right) and is a remant of Kofuji (Old Fuji), an ancestral volcano that preceded the construction of the modern edifice.

Photo by Ichio Moriya (Kanazawa University).

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Galleries: Stratovolcanoes

Keywords: stratovolcano

Fujisan