At the summit of Mount Fuji, overlooking Lake Yamanaka
Courtesy Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Figure 3. Topography and Drainage

Source: Based on information from Martin Collcutt, et al., Cultural Atlas of Japan, New York, 1988, 13, 22. 207

Data as of January 1994

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