Tama cemetery

Entrance area

Fountain tower

The Tama Cemetery ( Japanese 多摩霊園 , Tama Reien ) is located in Fuchū ( Tokyo Prefecture ). It is the largest cemetery in the prefecture and the first in Japan to be set up as a park.

Overview

The Tama Cemetery was established in 1923 when the city's population was growing rapidly. The largest east-west extension is around 1300 m, the north-south extension 1100 m. The total area is 1,280,237 m². The cemetery is divided into 26 sections and is criss-crossed by avenues with bus stops.

The cemetery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. In summer the main gate in the southeast and the Koganeitor in the northwest is open until 6:30 p.m.

Graves of famous people

Asanuma Inejirō (1898-1960), Japanese politician
Den Kenjirō (1855-1930), Japanese civil servant and politician
Fukudome Shigeru (1891–1971), Japanese admiral
Hayashi Senjūrō (1876–1943), General of the Imperial Japanese Army, politician and the 33rd Prime Minister of Japan
Honjō Shigeru (1876–1945), General of the Imperial Japanese Army
Inoue Masakichi (1886–1975), Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army
Inoue Shigeyoshi (1889–1975), Japanese admiral
Iwaya Sazanami (1870-1933), Japanese author
Kinoshita Mokutarō (1885-1945), Japanese writer, doctor and leprosy researcher
Kishida Ryūsei (1891–1929), Japanese painter
Koga Mineichi (1885–1944), Japanese Grand Admiral (Gensui) and commander of the combined fleet
Kurita Takeo (1889–1977), Vice Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
Minobe Tatsukichi (1873–1948), Japanese constitutional lawyer and specialist in administrative law
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), Japanese writer, poet, director and nationalist political activist
Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933), Japanese agronomist, philosopher, educator, author and international political activist
Okada Keisuke (1868–1952), Japanese admiral in the Imperial Navy
Okamoto Tarō (1911–1996), Japanese artist
Ōuchi Hyōei (1888–1980), Japanese economist and Marxist
Shiga Yoshio (1901-1989), Japanese Marxist politician
Richard Sorge (1895–1944), German communist, writer and undercover worker for the Soviet military intelligence service
Sakurai Shōzō (1889–1985), Japanese general
Sugiyama Hajime (1880–1945), Gensui of the Imperial Japanese Army and multiple army minister
Takahashi Korekiyo (1854–1936) Japanese politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Japan
Tanaka Giichi (1863–1929), Japanese general, politician and 26th Prime Minister of Japan
Tanaka Tatsuo (1910–1998), Japanese nobleman and politician
Taniguchi Masaharu (1893–1985), Japanese author, new spiritist and founder of the new religious movement Seichō-no-Ie
Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934), Japanese admiral
Tokonami Takejirō (1867-1935), Japanese politician
Uchimura Kanzō (1861-1930), Japanese Protestant Christian, columnist and pacifist
Ugaki Kazushige (1868–1956), Japanese general
Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943), Japanese admiral
Yamamuro Gumpei (1872–1940), founder of the Salvation Army in Japan
Yosano Akiko (1878–1942), Japanese poet
Yosano Tekkan (1873-1935), Japanese writer
Yoshino Sakuzō (1878–1933), Japanese political scientist, historian and author