A Graveyard in the Middle of the Road

“Nanikore” discovers a graveyard in Okayama prefecture that is located in the middle of a paved road:

According to the owner of the graveyard, it has existed for 200 years. The area around it used to be a farm field bordering on a narrow road, but about 50 years ago, the road was widened.

It is a side road without much traffic, but the man says that hasn’t stopped cars from accidentally bashing into the graves on a couple occasions.

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4 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - June 3, 2010 at 7:21 am

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http://www.onivoro.com.br Kojima

Traffic calming…
http://www.tejiendoelmundo.com Joel

In my country we have this little tombs near highways honoring people who died in that location….
But a graveyard in the middle, its kinda dangerous….especially at night.
T-rock

How would ever see you this thing at night lol, surprising with such major attention to safety over here about everything they totally forgot　DOH! to put those awesome flickering LED lights, or those reflector strips of sorts. Or place some roboto dude alarming people with his little flag tellin people hey watch out for the cemetary ahead ご注意ください墓地がある.
http://www.thesoulofjapan.blogspot.com McAlpine

That’s like asking an idiot why he hit a parked car in broad daylight. The grave is big as hell how could somebody possibly miss it?

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