Aokigahara Forest: The Mysterious Forest at the Foot of Mount Fuji

Aokigahara Forest and Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Japan

Aokigahara Forest sits on 30 square kilometers of hardened lava at the northwestern base of Mount Fuji — a dense, silent woodland that grew, tree by tree, out of solid volcanic rock over more than a thousand years. The Japanese call it Jukai, the “Sea of Trees,” for the way its unbroken canopy ripples out … Read more