Birds include great tit, willow tit, long-tailed tit, great spotted woodpecker, pygmy woodpecker, bush warbler, Eurasian jay, Japanese white-eye, Japanese thrush, brown-headed thrush, Siberian thrush, Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo, Japanese grosbeak, lesser cuckoo, black-faced bunting, oriental turtle dove, and common cuckoo. Mammals include the Asian black bear, small Japanese mole, bats, mice, deer, fox, boar, wild rabbit, Japanese mink and Japanese squirrel. The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force has conducted its ranger courses including navigation training in the forest since 1956. However, a compass behaves as expected when held at a normal height. Needles of magnetic compasses will move if placed directly on the lava, aligning with the rock's natural magnetism, which varies in iron content and strength by location. Īokigahara has been falsely portrayed as a place where navigational compasses go haywire. Designated trails lead to several tourist attractions such as the Narusawa Ice Cave, Fugaku Wind Cave and Lake Sai Bat Cave which are three larger lava caves near Mount Fuji, the ice cave being frozen year-round. The forest floor mostly consists of volcanic rock. Because of this, signs at the head of some trails urge suicidal visitors to think of their families and contact a suicide prevention association. At least since the 1960s, Aokigahara has become associated with suicide, eventually becoming known in English by the nickname " Suicide Forest" and gaining a reputation as one of the world's most-used suicide sites. The forest has a historical reputation as a home to yūrei: ghosts of the dead in Japanese mythology. Parts of Aokigahara are very dense, and the porous lava rock absorbs sound, contributing to a sense of solitude that some visitors attribute to the forest.
The western edge of Aokigahara, where there are several caves that fill with ice in winter, is a popular destination for tourists and school trips.
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