Aokigahara forest in Japan is noted as a place where many people go for what purpose?
Aokigahara in popular culture journalists since 1970. This page lists Aokigahara in popular culture from both within Japan and abroad. It is not an exhaustive list of the many games, films, manga and other cultural products that mention Aokigahara. Aokigahara in popular culture Aokigahara is frequently featured in popular culture due to its historic association with "yūrei" or ghosts of the dead in Japanese mythology and is a notoriously common suicide site (wherein 54 took place in 2010). The forest is said to be the world’s second most popular suicide spot, the first being the Golden Gate Bridge. The rate of suicide has led
Aokigahara tourist attractions such as the Narusawa Ice Cave, Fugaku Wind Cave and Lake Sai Bat Cave which are three larger lava caves near to Mount Fuji, the ice cave being frozen all around the year. The first kilometer of the forest is littered with tape and other rubbish left by tourists, despite officials' attempts to remove it. After the first kilometer into Aokigahara towards Mount Fuji within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, the forest is in better condition, with few obvious signs of human presence. Aokigahara has been falsely portrayed as a place where navigational compasses go haywire. Needles of magnetic