Grave Hunting In Tokyo's Cemeteries

Above, the view of the snow-covered Aoyama Cemetery from Tokyo City View at Mori Tower. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Does exploring cemeteries and looking for graves of famous people interest you? If it does, you're in luck.

The Japan Times has an interesting article on "Grave Hunting In Tokyo's Realms of the Dead." Here, the writer tells about four different cemeteries in Tokyo where people hunt down the final resting places of notable people.

One part of the article:

Four (pronounced “shi”) is considered an unlucky number in Japan because it’s a homophone for 死, the character for death. It’s appropriate, then, that when you talk about Tokyo cemeteries, there are only four places worth discussing, not only for the names you’ll find inscribed on their combined 450,000 headstones, but for the storied histories of the places themselves. Dead men may tell no tales, but stories grow like weeds in the boneyard.

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