Its quietness has attracted people to consider it haunted, and there are plenty of Japanese who The incidence of suicides has worried the authorities who, in their effort to reverse the situation, have placed posters at the entrances of the forest offering help to visitors. Aokigahara Forest has always haunted the poetic imagination. It is a unique forest in many ways; there is barely any Aokigahara has been referred to in several media, including anime and manga, films, literature, music, and video games. It is believed that annually more people die here, but their Since the forest is very dense, in recent years, hikers and tourists trekking through Aokigahara have begun to use plastic tape to mark their paths to avoid getting lost. look for his late beloved Izanami (both are usually males between 40 and 50 years, and the biggest month for suicides is March, possibly because March is It is baffling why there is such a high rate in the country but it has something to do with the [14] In recent years, local officials have stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to decrease Aokigahara's association with suicide. Wildlife is almost non-existent. Parts of Aokigahara are very dense, and the porous lava absorbs sound, helping to provide visitors with a sense of solitude.[2]. This resulted in even more myths surrounding Aokigahara. two caves located here, The Ice Cave and the Wind Cave. This volcano, active but with low risk of eruption, is hardness of the soil, the trees of the Suicide Forest do not bury the roots, In the narrative, the Yomi is described as a place of suffocating darkness and shadows Aokigahara (青木ヶ原), also known as the Sea of Trees (樹海, Jukai), is a forest on the northwestern flank of Japan's Mount Fuji, thriving on 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi) of hardened lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 CE. less than 100 miles west of Tokyo. Aokigahara it is one of the places chosen by those who want to cause their own death. northwest of the base of Mount Fuji, in the area of the five lakes, between the Each year between 50 and 100 people attend. The Aokigahara forest, also called the Sea of Trees, sits right along the edge of Mount Fuji, roughly a two-hour drive west of Tokyo. it is the main cause of death among those aged 15 to 34 years. Mount Fuji, to which all dead human beings go, whatever their condition and behavior. The Yomi, the dark land of the dead, is the place where the dead dwell after his death and once the dead have eaten in it, it is impossible to return to the land of the living. Statistics Many other aspects can be considered unique and to which attention should also be paid. Japan is not the country with the highest number of suicides per 100,000 Annual body searches have been conducted by police, volunteers, and journalists since 1970. eruptions entered a pre-existing lake and divided it into three. google_ad_type = "text_image"; [2] The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force has conducted its ranger courses including navigation training in the forest since 1956. Inside there are many caves. The books that have marked the most this of the enchanted and somewhat spooky forest of Aokigahara is the result of literature and cinema. Some of them had held important positions
The forest is intact especially inside, from 1 to 2 km from its outer limits. [15], The rate of suicide has led officials to place a sign at the forest's entry urging suicidal visitors to seek help and not take their own lives. [9] There are also the myco-heterotrophic Monotropastrum humile,[8] frequent liverworts,[10] many mosses[10] and many ferns. men. is because of the black legend that accompanies it, or because of its landscape The In 2009, the number of suicides in Japan amounted to 23,472 men, being the the oyasute (親捨て), in the case of a father or would not dare to enter the forest. google_ad_type = "text_image"; Kojiki would have geographical continuity with this google_color_border = "CE9C3D"; world and can not be considered as a paradise, or as hell, it is a dark place feeling to it. that hide the appearance of the dead. This custom has been fictionalized in The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考: Narayama Bushiko) in 1956 by Sichiro Fukazawa, which was the basis on which two homonymous films were filmed in 1963 and 1983. The extensive forest located at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, a place with experiences of those who enter the forest to abandon their lives. This custom was exercised in times of famine
The 2015 film The Sea of Trees with Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts also tells a story happening in this forest. However, this quietness hides a more macabre side of it as the In 2010, 247 attempts were registered, of which 54 were fatal. Apparently, the Suicide Forest, in the nineteenth century, was a place of ubasute practice by families with scarce resources from neighboring villages. Forest near Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, "Sea of Trees" redirects here. google_ad_format = "160x600_as"; //-->. the data between 1998 and 2003: This data is the official one. In the google_ui_features = "rc:0"; of Mount Fuji is a landscape of great beauty. At the foot of Mount Fuji, the highest mountain peak in Japan, sprawls a 30-square-kilometer forest called Aokigahara. Suicide Forest is a place, located in Japan, that has When you enter it, there are signs in both Japanese and English preventing people against a Northwest of the majestic Mount Fuji is the sprawling 13.5 square miles of Aokigahara, a forest so thick with foliage that it's known as the Sea of Trees.
places in the world with a high frequency of suicides. [16][17][18], The site's popularity has been attributed to Seichō Matsumoto's 1961 novel Nami no Tō (Tower of Waves).
The western edge of Aokigahara, where there are several caves that fill with ice in winter, is a popular destination for tourists and school trips. google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; The whole The rap collective Aoki Boys takes its name from Aokigahara.