Fuji

Fuji lies at the southern foot of the great mountain, where the Fuji River reaches Suruga Bay. The Sengen shrine at Fujinomiya honours the volcano as a deity; its main sanctuary was rebuilt under Tokugawa Ieyasu's patronage in the early seventeenth century. River boats linked inland Kai with the landing at Iwabuchi, near the Tōkaidō, carrying goods between the mountain interior and the coast.