April 2022 – Susan Spann, Adventure, Mystery, and Mountains

Discover the Secret Icicles of Narusawa Ice Cave in Yamanashi’s Suicide Forest

Susan Spann Blog, Travel & Tourism April 25, 2022April 23, 2022Fuji Five Lakes, Ice cave, icicles, Japan, Sites of Interest, travel, Yamanashi

A few weeks ago, I took a visit to Narusawa Ice Cave, in Aokigahara (Japan’s famed “suicide forest”), to see the massive natural icicles that form there, underground.

Kosatsuba – Japan’s Medieval Billboards

Susan Spann Blog April 19, 2022April 19, 2022Japan, Japanese history, kosatsuba, Nakasendo, shogun, signboards, Tokugawa, travel

social classes, and since so many travelers passed through them, they were also excellent places for the Shogunate to post important news, new laws, and edicts, to ensure as many people as possible would see them.