Looking five hundred years ahead, you plant a tree. Yoshino in Nara is famous for its cherry blossoms. But it is also a home of forestry. Yoshino forestry has a history of more than five hundred years, one of the oldest forestry regions in Japan. What grows here is Yoshino cedar and Yoshino cypress, straight, knot-free, with fine growth rings, known as the finest timber. Why does such wood grow here? Because people have tended it with painstaking care. They plant densely, raise slowly, thin again and again; a single tree may take a hundred years before it is cut. Forestry is an investment in the future; the tree you plant now you will not harvest in your own lifetime. You plant for your children, your grandchildren. In the experience program, you enter the mountains, look up at the trees, fell a tree, and come to know the weight of a tree someone planted a hundred years ago.