Eight thousand cherry trees stand over a cemetery. Fuji Reien writes that its grounds hold about 1,000 Somei-yoshino and about 7,000 yamazakura, and that it was named to the national list of a hundred cherry sites in 1990, with the flowers at their best around the middle of April. The proportion is worth reading twice. Seven of every eight trees here are yamazakura, so the variety that dominates almost every other site on that list is in the minority at this one.

There are writers' graves under them.

The Japan Writers' Association commissioned the architect Yoshiro Taniguchi to build a grave for some 800 literary figures, and it stands within the grounds, according to the cemetery. The place people travel to for the blossom is therefore also the place where those writers are buried, and neither use is treated as the reason for the other.

The way the trees are described says something too. The cemetery's account of its own cherry blossom sits on a page about the appearance of the grounds rather than anywhere resembling tourist information, and it runs to three sentences: the counts, the year of the designation, and the flowering period. Most of the hundred are written up by a tourism body with photographs and adjectives attached. Here the operator is a foundation that manages graves, and the cherry trees are set down in the same register as the paths and the buildings.