Narusawa Ice Cave

The Narusawa Ice Cave (Narusawa Hyōketsu) is a lava tube located in the Aokigahara forest, in the part that belongs to Narusawa Village, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the three larger lava tubes at the northern foot of Mount Fuji, the other two caves being Fugaku Wind Cave and Lake Sai Bat Cave. All three were designated as Natural Monuments of Japan in 1929. The Narusawa Ice Cave is 156 meters long measured along the visitor route with two lobes, with the width of 1.5 to 11 meters and the height of 1 to 3.6 meters. The average temperature inside the cave is about 3°C. The cave was long used as a natural refrigerator. During the Edo period, ice cut in this cave was sent to the shōgun and his entourage in Edo. During the early 1900s, ice made here had been used in the refrigerator before the electric refrigerator arrived.

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