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A day-trip bathing facility near the lakeside of the west lake, where you can enjoy the natural sea salt Kuroshio bath, the open-air bath of the west lake.

Walk on the Aokigahara Forest Sea northwest of Mount Fuji with a nature guide tour recognized by Fujikawaguchiko Town. Experience the nature of the sea, which is rare in the world. The guide that can handle English is reserved only.

The infinity of nature that prevails in front of you. At an altitude of 902m and a depth of 73.2m, there is a cottage and tent site in the sea on the shore of West Lake, the second deepest in Fuji Five Lakes. Rental items are also available, and the cottage has air conditioning, bedding and barbecue facilities, so you can feel free to enjoy the outdoors.

A group of thatched people standing near West Lake, overlooking the sacred peak Fuji and the mysterious forest of Aokigahara. In the building, traditional craft experiences can be made, such as ceramic art, smell bag making, kaleidoscope making, and cloth accessories making. There is also a restaurant and a house where you can enjoy hand-made soba, country cuisine using local ingredients, hoto, cooked rice, dumplings and matcha, and a sleeping hall where you can relax and relax.

Experience the making of the owl by hand-picking clay. Finish well using molds and spatula. The finished product is dried to baked, and will be shipped after about a month (the fee is paid off). Easy even for small children, unglazed coloring experience 600 yen ~. The shop is full of cute pottery. Owl making 2500 yen (taking about 30 minutes).

An exhibition and experience facility in Saiko Iayashi no Satoneba at the westernmost end of Saiko, one of the five lakes of Fuji. The interior of the facility, which is made up of thatched private houses, is decorated with seasonal hanging and hanging decorations, and is wrapped in a glamorous atmosphere. The owl strap making 800 yen is an experience that can be done in about 15 minutes. The prepared kit is completed by sewing or pasting under the guidance of the staff. There are also sales of cute hanging clothes.

The park is located in a corner of the Aokigahara Forest Sea and is home to about 60 species of wild birds. The park is centered around a work room (reservation required) where you can experience crafting, and a center house and a forest gallery with a room equipped with a bird-searching telescope, with a walking path in the forest on the east side and a lawn square on the west. It is also famous as a venue for the "West Lake Koori Festival".

Located on the west side of the north shore of West Lake, you can see Mount Fuji over West Lake and the Aokigahara tree. It is also one of the Fuji eight views chosen by local people. There is a public parking lot at the point where you can drive down the lake.

A lava field that flowed out when one of Fuji's parasitic volcanoes, Mount Nagao, erupted in 864. After a long period of time, about 30 square km of this lava field turned into a virgin forest. It has a lot of evergreen trees, and when viewed from a height, the tree forest seems to be a sea of trees. At present, most of the unexplored parts are unexplored, and it is dangerous to get out of the determined course and go into the forest. The only way through is a national highway, a former reclaimed road, and the Tokai Nature Trail. The feature is that there are many caves created by lava, and many caves have been identified, of which ice holes, wind holes, and Saiko bat holes can be entered.

One of the representative lava caves along with ice holes. In the side-hole type, the total extension is as large as 201m. In addition to the lava shelves and the surface of the lava stalactites, traces of the storage of silkworm eggs in the Meiji period are also left at the innermost. A tree-sea course of the Tokai Nature Trail leads to and from the ice hole, about a 20-minute walk.