Ice Caves and Saiko Iyashi no Sato Nenba Healing Village

Today we head for Saiko Iyashi no Sato Nenba (Healing Village) and the Ice & Wind caves. We caught the green Line bus from near our hotel. (There are three bus routes in Kawaguchiko. You can use your Suica or other IC card or buy a day pass if you prefer. All routes start and finish at Kawaguchiko station) First we headed to Saiko Iyashi no Sato Nenba, (entrance fee ¥500) which was a traditional village destroyed by a mud slide and rebuilt as a tourist attraction on the edge of Lake Saiko, with different craft shops, museums etc. housed in the buildings. Not quite the traditional village we were expecting, but interesting enough with good views of Mt. Fuji. We had a very pleasant Mushroom & Soba Noodle lunch in one of the houses. Next we again caught the green line bus to the Wind Cave stop where we bought combined tickets for the Wind and Ice Caves (¥600). There is a nice forest walk between the caves. They are located in the Aokigahara Forest, a dense forest growing o