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Okunoin Cemetery

Cemetery · Kōya ·

Okunoin Cemetery

Cemetery · Kōya ·
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"A vast, atmospheric cemetery that reads like a journey through Japanese history, where ancient five-tiered gravestones and moss-covered tombs sit alongside headstones shaped like rocket ships, coffee cups and HDTVs. By night the place is especially evocative—illuminated stone lanterns lining paths through old cedars—while a central mausoleum venerates the mountain’s founder, to whom daily offerings of breakfast and lunch are still made and where pilgrims and ascetics gather in quiet devotion." - Pico Iyer

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Sacred Buddhist cemetery with ancient cedars, mossy graves

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Japan, 〒648-0211 Wakayama, Ito District, Koya, Koyasan, 奥の院 Get directions

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Sacred Buddhist cemetery with ancient cedars, mossy graves

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Japan, 〒648-0211 Wakayama, Ito District, Koya, Koyasan, 奥の院 Get directions

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