Taken yesterday after the snowfall
Graveyard has no fences nor signs just in the middle of houses
One of the yellow houses in the background is my house, right across the ricefield is this graveyard
Across this graveyard are houses rent by US military families, I can recognize American houses because of the type of satellite dish installed to every house aside from their cars park in front of their houses (American car's plate numbers have "Y" on it), anyways I can not live or rent a house in front of a graveyard....it feels weird and creepy, no way! and besides I heard a lot of ghost stories here in Japan...so it's a NO NO :-)
Along side of the road
This looks like the person buried here was a Christian or Catholic because of the "cross"
This is creepy......Can you see the reflection of the white lady on the tombstone??? Take a closer look between the 2 bouquet of flowers, can you see the lady who's wearing white and standing?? That's me, taking this photo! Gotcha! hahaha---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was a bit in a hurry yesterday to take some photos to join Patty for today's graveyard shootout, it's been a week and I haven't taken any photos yet, so I ended up going to just one place, just a stone's throw away from our house. It was freezing cold and so windy outside when I walked down across the rice field where this graveyard is. We thought that snow was over but not here in Misawa, it did snow last Tuesday and until yesterday; even this morning we even had some flurries, I hope this would be the last snowfall.
I remember the first time we got here, we went to a free tour around Misawa and there was one graveyard we went to, the tour guide said that 1 tombstone costs around $20,000+ ......whooah (??????), it is not only expensive to live here in Japan it's expensive to die too! And she even reminded us, in her Japanese accent, "Please, do not die here in Japan," she's so funny hahaha.
I noticed that their tombstones are mostly granite and marble stones that make them so expensive.
