The Higashi Otani Buddhist Cemetery is a beautiful, quiet, and peaceful place but with amazing views of Kyoto and the mountains. The individual tombs have forms like miniature towers that, when viewed together, resemble a dense cityscape, almost indistinguishable from the actual buildings of Kyoto's dense cityscape beyond.
March 2026 | Kyoto, Japan
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