AOKIGAHARA

1. Public Record

Aokigahara, the sea of trees on the north-west flank of Fuji. Lava from 864, a dense wood, caves, and a reputation the prefecture has tried to starve. Official signs at the tree line ask people to think of their families and to talk to someone. That is the public record that matters. Film and print have done the rest, often badly. This page will not add a map, a method, or a count.

What the folder can hold is a forest that became a magnet because other forests were quieter in the culture, and a local government that answered with phones, patrols, and those signs. Yurei talk exists in the older layer. It is not the reason the signs are there. The signs are there because people walk in and some of them do not walk out. Fuji still has a wood. The wood still has a job that is not folklore.

A lava forest. Official wording at the edge. A mountain that did not ask for this file.

2. Date of Incident

Forest after the 864 lava. Modern official response across late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

3. Location

North-west flank of Mount Fuji, Yamanashi. Approximate 35°28 N 138°37 E.

4. Official Narrative

Prefectural and volunteer response, signage, patrols. Official narrative is prevention and woodland, not a haunting.

5. Witness Layer

Rangers, police, volunteers. Older folklore voices kept in a separate drawer. No named private case on this page.

6. Recovery Logistics

Official signage. Patrol practice. No souvenir trail.

7. Assessment

Do not file this as a ghost wood. File it as a place the state marked because people were getting lost on purpose. Folklore can sit in a sentence. It does not get the title. The signs are the honest artifact: a government talking to a walker in the second person.

This folder keeps Aokigahara thin on purpose. No routes. No numbers. No how. If you came for a yurei, look at Enfield. If you came for the mountain, look at the signs and leave the rest alone.

8. Materials & Remains

Official signs. Public prevention language. Nothing else.

9. Key Personnel

Prefectural and volunteer patrols : The living response.

10. Aftermath

The wood remains. The signs remain. Media that treats it as a destination remains a problem the prefecture already named.

11. Current Archive Status

Status: Fuji wood. Official signs. No map here.

Confidence: High that the forest exists and that official signs and patrols are the public response. Low that folklore explains the modern file. This page will not carry private cases.

Filing note

A lava wood on Fuji, a prefecture that put words at the tree line, patrols instead of a tour, an older ghost story that does not get to eat the signs.

Think of your family. The only sentence on this page that was written for a person standing there.