20+ Mount Fujis Suiside Forest Pics. 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. The result of this was 12 square miles of lava being spread over where the forest now stands.
Arthur brennan treks into aokigahara, known as the sea of trees, a mysterious dense forest at the base of japan's mount fuji where people go to commit suicide.
The forest is mentioned in wataru tsurumui's book the manual of suicides, and was even the subject of the 2004 movie jyukai — the sea of trees behind mt. At the base of mount fuji is a dense, verdant forest. The aokigahara forest is located northwest of mount fuji on the japanese island of honshu and is about 35 square meters in area. Despite annual body collection efforts, decaying human bodies hide throughout the thickets.