Mount Fuji viewed from the service area at Fujikawa on the Tomei Expressway, the main road link between Okazaki City and Tokyo. Most photos and postcards depicting Fuji-san show what appears to be a beautiful unspoilt nature reserve (the mountain itself is a national park), with a couple showing the famous high speed trains on the Tokaido shinkansen line.

The reality unfortunately is that since Mount Fuji is on the Pacific Coast and only 100 kilometers from Tokyo, it is very heavily industrialized (lots of chimneys, paper and pulp mills, factories and so forth) and traversed by extensive infrastructure including the road and rail networks.

This angle is practically the only one where it is possible to take a photo of the Tomei (which carries more passenger traffic than the shinkansen) without the factories of Fuji City front and center.

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