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Footnotes
1 : Most-climbed mountain : Mount Fuji attracts roughly 200,000 climbers per year. Monadnock in New Hampshire is second.
2 : Mount Fuji pilgimage : There are many Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples and torii gates on the mountain, and some Japanese Buddhist traditions consider the mountain to be "a gateway to another world". (Sources: Wikipedia Shinto, saced-destinations.com).
3 : Tozan (pilgrimage vs. mountaineering) : Pages like this one describe the proper attitude and behavior for visitors to the head temple. The automatic translation provided by Google has many references to "climbing", all of which are 登山 tozan in the original text.
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