Retrospective 53 Minutes - Legend of Aokigahara

(Backup video from Youtube [Originally Uploaded by: Yuuka Kazami])
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Track 5 of ZUN's CD Album: 卯酉東海道 ～ Retrospective 53 minutes
Original Title: 青木ヶ原の伝説
Released on: 2006-05-21 (Reitaisai 3)
Original CD Track Story:
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A journey of the mind along the Boyu Line.
-The Tokaido Subway is the most Japanesque subway in Japan.
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--Legend of Aokigahara--

"Ah, I..."

"What's the matter, Merry? You look scary all of a sudden."

"I suddenly felt kinda sick.
:Don't you feel it, Renko? The space we're now is a bit different from normal.
:Also, I can see a gap in the border... Maybe it's a bug in the screen-controlling program?"

"Ah, perhaps we're under the sacred mountain.
::The atmosphere is a little different... No, wait, it might even be the dimension that's different.
::You're such a worry-wart that it's making you overly nervous."

"Oh, I see, so we're under Mt. Fuji.
:But I do know about Mt. Fuji. It's been said there's an entrance to the Netherworld underneath it since ancient times.
:But it's a volcano, isn't it? I wonder if it was safe to build a tunnel here."

"Stop worrying so much. Just have a drink and stop being so pessimistic.
::When Mt. Fuji was recognized as a World Heritage Site, they designated it as an extinct volcano, so it's no longer merely dormant. Remember?"

The Boyu Tokaido was designed just to connect Tokyo and Kyoto, but the government had to do quite a bit to assuage fears and concerns of tunneling under Mt. Fuji.

It makes a detour underneath of a sea of trees instead.

But there are a lot of bad legends about the woods surrounding Mt. Fuji, so it may have affected the operation and number of passengers that would ride it.

With that mindset, they never announced it officially.