Japan. The Suicide Forest is a 35 km² forest located northwest of the base of Mount Fuji between Yamanashi Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The forest has a historical association with demons in Japanese mythology, and there are 1000-year-old poems indicating that the forest is cursed.
In the old days, when famines and epidemics struck, the poorest families abandoned the children and elderly they could not feed to their fate. For this reason, stories arose that the forest was haunted by the ghosts of those who died there. Its reputation as a place of suicide may have been sealed in 1960 when Seicho Matsumoto’s novel Nami no Tou was published, in which two lovers also commit suicide in the forest at the end of the book. In addition, Wataru Tsurumi’s ‘The Complete Suicide Manual’, a guide to suicide, was published in 1993, recommending the forest as an ideal place to take one’s own life. Today, tourism is limited to guarded areas only, and although it is not forbidden to enter the forest, numerous warning signs are posted in various languages to help people who are thinking of suicide to seek help. But on our trip we will go into the forest and the more sensitive will be able to ‘enjoy’ it.
This experience is classified as REALITY. That means that, regardless of whether or not you believe in its details, it is based on a magical, religious, mystical or energetic environment or experience that can exert a real or mental influence on some people. For this reason, experiences such as this one are carried out only with people of legal age and aware of these warnings. And by booking your visit, you agree that you have been informed about all of this.
This experience is classified as REALITY. That means that, regardless of whether or not you believe in its details, it is based on a magical, religious, mystical or energetic environment or experience that can exert a real or mental influence on some people. For this reason, experiences such as this one are carried out only with people of legal age and aware of these warnings. And by booking your visit, you agree that you have been informed about all of this.