The surprising funerary world of Tokyo. The LED graveyard
The funeral world from Tokyo It also adapts to the new technological times with its particular vision of the futuristic cemetery, architecture and led technology. The cover image is not the interior of a spaceship, nor the last headquarters of the Google company, it is simply a different way of conceiving a modern ossuary and a new concept within the funeral industry.
Now in the cemetery of Ruriden (Tokyo) while visiting a loved one who passed away - in the section of the ossuary - you can slide a Smart card so that the buddha statue light up with led technology and you can easily locate the vault where the cremated deceased is.
The Japanese country has always been characterized by 3 main factors; the very high population density (It has more than three hundred and thirty inhabitants per square kilometer as a national average), the technological sophistication, and the attachment to their ancestral traditions and customs. This cemetery that seen from the west may seem strange, in reality it is the combination of the three fundamental nuances in its culture, whose veneration and acceptance of death is locked behind the walls of this Buddhist and technological cemetery.
In reality, there are also other factors that are pushing this type of business. Traditionally, each family in Japan she owned a parcel of land with her stone grave in a physical cemetery, problem, conservation costs, maintenance and with the high population rates it is becoming a "luxury" to be able to opt for a parcel. So the cemeteries such as the one in Ruriden are intervening to offer an alternative through incineration, which lowers costs, and the construction of buildings destinated to ossuaries.
The Tokyo Buddhist Cemetery was built in a couple of years and the ashes are kept for thirty-three years. Currently six hundred altars they are in employment and another three hundred are already reserved for future deaths.
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