Tokyo’s Little Mount Fujis

A stone marker indicates the eighth station on the Shitaya-Sakamoto fujizuka.

Utagawa Hiroshige’s Meguro moto-Fuji, from One Hundred Views of Edo. (© National Diet Library)

A miniature of the Sengen Shrine Oku no Miya on the summit of Mount Fuji sits atop a fujizuka in Setagaya, Tokyo.

A statue of Jikigyō Miroku, an early leader of one of two lineages of Fujikō.

The gates of the Shitaya-Sakamoto fujizuka are opened for several days each year to celebrate the start of the official climbing season on Mount Fuji.