Fuji (富士市, Fuji-shi) is a city in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Per Japanese census data,[2] the population of Fuji has grown rapidly over the past 50 years.

[3] In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō passed through the area that is now Fuji, with a post station at Yoshiwara-juku.

During the Edo period, the area was mostly tenryō territory under direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate.

With the establishment of the modern municipalities system of the early Meiji period in 1889, the area was reorganized into the town of Yoshiwara (吉原町) and the villages of Shimada (島田村) Denbō (伝法村), Imaizumi (今泉村), Motoyoshiwara (元吉原村), Sudo (須津村), Yoshinaga (吉永村), Harada (原田村), Ōbuchi (大淵村), Kajima (加島村), Tagoura (田子浦村), Iwamatsu (岩松村), and Takaoka (鷹岡村) within Fuji District.

The city expanded through annexation of neighboring Ukijima and San area from Hara, Suntō District in 1956.

Fuji has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 32 members.