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No.284 The Zoshigaya cemetery

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The Tokyo Zoshigaya cemetery


A Zoshigaya cemetery was (Meiji 22) a metropolitan cemetery and was specified as the public cemetery in 1874. It is in the silent area just near the metropolitan streetcar Zoshigaya stop and there are a lot of tombs of the celebrity such as Yakumo Koizumi, Natsume Soseki, Takeshita Yumeji, Nagai Kafu. As for the public cemetery in these those days, in addition to the Zoshigaya cemetery, four of Aoyama cemeteries, Somei cemeteries, Taninaka cemeteries are specified. Moreover, Tama Cemetery, a Hachioji cemetery, a Kodaira cemetery, Hatchuureien are gained and 8 cemeteries of present municipal cemeteries exist.

The metropolitan streetcar Zoshigaya stop
There is a cemetery entrance in the side at once.

The Tokyo Zoshigaya cemetery (The side of the metropolitan streetcar)

The cemetery guide map

It is surrounded by the green and it becomes silent environment.

There is a management work place at the cemetery.

In Tokugawa Yoshimune's times, there was a room to breed a hawk for the falconry.

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