Just a minute's walk from JR Nippori Station spreads a vast cemetery in Tokyo's Taito Ward that covers much of the eastern half of the area known as Yanaka and a strip of the neighboring Ueno Sakuragi area.
Yanaka Reien is where a number of historical figures -- including Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837-1913), the last of the Tokugawa shoguns -- rest, along with a countless number of nameless souls.
The presence of a cemetery with thousands of graves might normally discourage prospective residents from moving into the neighborhood. That theory, however, appears not to hold true here.
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