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Yanaka Cemetery - While most people might find a trip to a cemetery to be unconventional, but the vast cemetery surrounding Tennoji Temple is a favorite spot for cherry blossom viewing in April and maple leaf viewing in November. Yanaka Cemetery which surrounds Tennoji was once a part of Tennoji temple. The Meiji government confiscated Tennoji's cemetery and made it public, a move which was never changed. Many of the tombs are elaborately decorated and nicely landscaped. Paths are well kept and wide. The grave of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan’s last shogun, is buried within the cemetery. On the edges of the cemetery large farmhouses that resemble garden supply shops are present, they are however, for visitors to buy flowers, buckets. brooms and other utensils to tidy up their loved ones graves

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Yanaka Cemetery - While most people might find a trip to a cemetery to be unconventional, but the vast cemetery surrounding Tennoji Temple is a favorite spot for cherry blossom viewing in April and maple leaf viewing in November. Yanaka Cemetery which surrounds Tennoji was once a part of Tennoji temple. The Meiji government confiscated Tennoji's cemetery and made it public, a move which was never changed. Many of the tombs are elaborately decorated and nicely landscaped. Paths are well kept and wide. The grave of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan’s last shogun, is buried within the cemetery. On the edges of the cemetery large farmhouses that resemble garden supply shops are present, they are however, for visitors to buy flowers, buckets. brooms and other utensils to tidy up their loved ones graves