A young girl's voice rings through the forest, drawing me further into the darkness. "Koko ni kite," the voice calls again in a whisper from the right, using a Japanese phrase that means "come this way."
The voice fades into the shadows and then returns a moment later from the left, shifting my attention to what appears to be an aquarium suspended between two large trees. It is uncanny in its realism and, like all good tricks of the eye, evades any obvious explanation.
I continue onward, descending a set of steps and reaching a rocky coast where a cliff is transformed into a huge exercise in projection mapping. And then it is into a maze of bamboo, where I'm prompted to take a flashlight from a basket. I flick it on, but it does little to cut through the red, murky gloom. I am momentarily lost in a maze of trees until the torchlight — not visible but ultraviolet — hits a sign, revealing an arrow pointing to the left. "Follow the path" reads the message displayed below.