【Travel to Shizuoka, Yamanashi】Why Japanese People Climbed Mini Mount Fujis Right in Old Tokyo

Mount Fuji (Yamanashi & Shizuoka, Japan) is more than a beautiful volcano — it’s worshipped as a god, its slopes from the 8th station up belong to a shrine, and people in old Tokyo built mini Fujis to climb in their own neighborhoods.
Join Naki, Hiko, and Komaru as we explore how Japan has worshipped, painted, and lived alongside this still-active mountain.
Timestamps, links, and credits are below.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Three things you didn’t know about Fuji
0:27 Flying in over Mount Fuji
0:49 Welcome to Fuji — UNESCO “cultural” site?
1:37 A mountain worshipped as a god
4:57 Painted again and again: Hokusai to Van Gogh
7:39 Living with an active volcano
10:50 Wrap-up: what Fuji really is

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📷 PHOTO CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons, license as noted)
Opening & views: Luke Ma (CC BY 2.0) · Σ64 (CC BY 3.0) · Stjepko Krehula (CC BY 4.0) · Supanut Arunoprayote (CC BY 4.0) · RuinDig/Yuki Uchida (CC BY 4.0)
Sacred mountain: Maarten Heerlien (CC BY 2.0) · AMANO Jun-ichi (CC BY 3.0) · redwing115 (CC BY 3.0)
Living with the volcano: Fabio Achilli (CC BY 2.0) · ajari (CC BY 2.0) · European Space Agency, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data
Thumbnail photo: Midori (CC BY 3.0)
Other images are public domain or CC0. AI-generated scenes are marked as reenactments in the video.
Full license terms: creativecommons.org/licenses

🎵 MUSIC CREDITS
BGM:
「神秘的な和の夜」 / ゆうり
「和風空間」 / 伊藤ケイスケ
「旅の日記」 / のる
「茶屋にて」 / MATSU
「神業」 / UG
「Fading Heat Days」 / MFP
「Wild Horse」 / Cloria Sound Labs
「のんびりだらり」 / キュス
「Promised Tree」 / MFP
「BonDance」 / 蒲鉾さちこ
Music provided by OpenTracks (formerly DOVA-SYNDROME)

🐒🐦🐕 ABOUT Musubi Trio | Japan Stories Worth Sharing
We’re Naki (a green pheasant who loves culture), Hiko (a Japanese macaque who lives for history), and Komaru (a Shiba Inu who’s all about everyday life in Japan) — the Musubi Trio! Every episode, the three of us travel to one real place in Japan — famous or completely under-the-radar — and dig into the history, culture, and daily life you won’t find in a typical guidebook. New spots, new stories, every episode.
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