If you can see it, its near, especially in Tokyo, with our bullet trains, and awesome overground rail and subway system. Mt. Fuji is at least 150km from my place, and I can see it clearly, so its “near”. We’re only talking 93 miles, remember, just about an hour-and-a-half car ride, or a 2-day walk.
When I lived in Japan (Yokosuka Naval Station), it was a very rare thing to be able to see Mt. Fuji, due to the persistent high levels of smog.
This was an amazing prediction, certainly one of the most
accurate to date.