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Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha

Built in honor of the mountain, these red halls are only the front door. Ieyasu built the two-storey sanctuary after he won the country — a shrine with an upstairs, almost unheard of — and behind it Fuji’s snowmelt comes out of the lava as a pond, which is why the shrine sits in town and not on the peak.