Chords for Exploring the Suicide Forest in Aokigahara | Adventures in Japan ( 青木ヶ原 )

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So, [F#] after two hours _ [G] on a train [G#] _ [B] from Shinjuku, Tokyo _ [B] to_I
can't even pronounce the name
of this town. _ _
[A] It came from Osaka.
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And we're [D] on our way to the forest, which will be neat.
It took us about two and a half, maybe three hours total after [N] this ride to get there,
which would be a long time.
But there's Mount Fuji.
It's pretty.
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_ _ _ _ _ It's pretty.
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Thank you. _ _ _ _
Okay, so we just arrived at the forest.
There's like a souvenir gift shop over there.
And _ so, a little bit, I guess, backstory on the Okigara Forest, aka the Suicide Forest.
_ It kind of feels weird calling it that, but that's like the name.
If you search it on Google, that's what it is.
Vice did a documentary thing on it and all this stuff.
But essentially, _ the past ten years or so, they've been finding this is a really common
place for, I guess, young Japanese people to come and kill themselves for various reasons.
And the numbers have been rising over the years. _
They said last year it was estimated that they found about 200 bodies or remains of bodies.
And so, it's been kind of drumming up a lot of talk on the internet because it says that
the forest is haunted, which I guess is like a pretty, I don't know, it's a pretty plausible
thing to say considering how many people die in this forest.
And at least in this stretch anyway.
I mean, I think this stretch is only like 10 or 15 miles or so.
Apparently, it snowed, [Bm] so all the paths are pretty fucking icy right now.
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_ _ _ _ [Bm] And look, look. _
[G] We found a car that's totally buried by the snow. _ _
[F] _ _ Not a good sign.
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_ _ [D#] Okay, we're gonna walk for like two or three minutes and then we're gonna turn back because
it's gonna start getting dark.
[G] It's cold and I'm not trying to get caught in a haunted forest after dark.
We don't believe in ghosts, so this definitely [F#m] could be scarier.
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_ Yeah, I mean, could you [A#] imagine being out here [A] and like being superstitious?
Like, [B] oh man, I just stepped in a huge pile of snow.
I don't know.
_ I'm kind of nervous being out here just because like, what if you did get lost?
[C#m] And like, it's just kind of creepy thinking about [F#] all the bad things that happen out here.
[C#] What I'm looking for _ [Bm] is this thing I see in all the documentaries, which is this like
fenced off part _ that says you're not allowed to go into.
And I'm not trying to go into it, but [G] it's just kind of the part where everyone either
goes camping or is like on the fence about _ suicide.
So they like, pretty much they all go past [Am] that point and there's these ribbons that
are [G] all along the trees _ that pretty much show people who go into the forest but think [Em] they
might want to come back out so [Bm] they can find their way back out.
It's really clever.
I'm not seeing any ribbons here because either we're not deep enough in or the snow [N] has covered them.
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_ [F#] _ Okay, I'm not seeing it.
Let's turn [A] around.
And not, and hopefully not get lost.
There's only one big path.
So I [G] find it, it would be pretty tough to actually [D] get lost not going this far [C#] in.
Yay, civilization!
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We made it!
_ [C#] _ _ So I guess what I took away [A#] from this experience [B] going into the forest, [G] like something like
that, a lot of people, you know, obviously [F#m] said it was haunted, all [D#] this crazy stuff.
I don't believe in any of that.
[A#] I don't believe in ghosts.
I don't believe in anything spiritual.
_ [F#] So I think ultimately, it's just kind of [D] sad.
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_ _ [F#] _ Please consider _ _ _ your parents, [F] your brother, your children.
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_ _ _ _ Please call [F] us.
Yeah.
Search me.
[A#] So it's a number of [N] suicide hotline.
Huh. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] They're kind of sad that this place has become kind of a tourism [A] spot because of all the
[C#] suicides and all the press that's been going on over the past couple years.
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And he [B] told us to tell all of you that this [D] area is incredibly beautiful, [G] which it is.
[D#] _ And it's [G#] a shame that it's kind of [B] turned into, at least has the stigma it [E] has now.
_ _ Oh man. _
_ _ [A] This is sad.
But we're now [A#] waiting at the bus stop [Dm] to get out of here.
He was really nice.
I just want [F#] to make a note that like everybody here in Japan has been incredibly, incredibly
nice [G] to us.
And they're very polite.
And even the guy, I assume he works here.
He was very forward with just [G] kind of talking about it and kind of the troubles he's had.
So yeah, it's pretty cool.
I did a little bit of reading on the bus ride [N] home and I found out that the movie The Forest,
which was out like literally a month ago in theaters, is about the suicide, or like Japan's suicide [C#] forest.
She went into the forest.
[G#] I want to hire a guide.
No guide.
Forest is very [D] dangerous.
_ _ _ _ And it has an 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I didn't [B] see it.
Apparently _ [N] $21 million worth of revenue.
So apparently some people did see it.
And apparently it's awful.
I think the biggest travesty out of this is that they tried to make a horror movie out
of it, which was like a really interesting concept apparently, and they failed miserably.
_ So I don't know.
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
So _ anyway, this has been quite the thing.
But stay sad.
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