Why does Mount Fuji snow all the year round?

The reasons for the perennial snow in Mount Fuji are: high altitude, low temperature, and the ice and snow are not easy to melt completely. Mount Fuji is the highest peak in Japan and a symbol of the Japanese nation. It is praised as a "holy mountain" by the Japanese people. Mount Fuji is located in south-central Honshu, about 80 kilometers east of Tokyo, with an altitude of 3776 meters. The mountain peaks soar into the sky, and the top of the mountain is covered with snow.

Within the range of 100 km around Mount Fuji, people can see the beautiful conical outline of Mount Fuji. From an altitude of 2300 meters to the top of the mountain, it is covered by volcanic lava and volcanic sand. So in this area, there are neither jungles nor springs, and the hiking route is not obvious. There are only winding paths in the gravel. There are vast lakes, waterfalls and jungles from below 2000 meters above sea level to the foot of the mountain, and the scenery is extremely beautiful.

Extended data

Mount Fuji is connected with the North American plate or the Okhotsk plate, and the sinking position of the Philippine Sea plate south of the central geosyncline (the Shizuoka tectonic line slightly to the west) is at the intersection of the three plates. Below Mount Fuji is the Philippine Sea Plate, and further down is the Pacific Plate. The lava of Mount Fuji, like the island arc volcano in East Japan, comes from the Pacific plate.

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