Fujisan, the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 metres, is one of the country’s most recognisable sights. The snow-capped peak “has inspired artists and poets and been the object of pilgrimage for centuries”, Unesco said.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization committee, currently holding its 37th annual session in Phnom Penh, classified the site as a “cultural” heritage site, rather than a “natural” heritage site.

Mount Fuji is the seventeenth Japanese site to be inscribed by Unesco. ‘)}