HOW TO REACH HIDE in Miura Reinen


I don't know from where you'll start your journey to reach HIDEKI Nii-san but to make it easier I will guide you from Tokyo toward Yokosuka Chuo-Miurakaigan-Miura Reinen. Let us start with the beginning or you will be confused and lost in details :) LOL. No matter from where you start you must use at first JR YAMANOTE LINE  please try to stick with the diagrams is very easy to get lost in Tokyo specially if you are a foreigner as I am, so here is the metro map of the Yamanote line

 Doesn't matter from where you start your journey from,each of those stations will do just fine AS LONG AS YOU REMEMBER TO GET OFF IN SHINAGAWA from there you must continue your journey using JR YOKOSUKA line. From SHINAGAWA till YOKOSUKA are 15 stations , so you will have to wait patient,(it will take a while so find something to do, since Yokosuka is just 2 stations away from the end of the line even if you fall asleep you can still go back in time LOL ) 

ATTENTION !!! on the map above aren't marked all stations ( Shinagawa, Nishi-Ōi , Musashi-Kosugi ,Shin-Kawasaki ,Tsurumi , Yokohama ,Hodogaya ,Higashi-Totsuka ,Totsuka ,Ōfuna ,Kita-Kamakura ,Kamakura ,Zushi ,Higashi-Zushi ,Taura ,Yokosuka ) so do not panik if you can't find there the station announced on the electronic screen above train's door ( I'm not telling you this because you are dumb, I honnestly don't think you are, but sometimes people get distracted and anxious to arrive somewhere and if making journey first time, is easy to get in panic )...now once you reach Yokosuka main station you can go till Yokosuka Chuo simply walking as it isn't damn far away (maybe 15-20 min walking) .

For Yokosuka Chuo please use in fact the East Exit of the station. As you reach there your journey toward HIDEKI is already half made, this should make you smile at list...now, as you enter the station you search for platform 1 leading toward Keikyu Main Line for Uraga, Keikyū Kurihama, Miurakaigan, and Misakiguchi to complete your journey you will need to use Miurakaigan (Keikyu Kurihama Line) , you need to have enough patience for 8 more train stops ( Yokosuka Chuo ,Horinouchi , Shin-Ōtsu , Kitakurihama , Keikyu Kurihama ,YRP Nobi ,Keikyu Nagasawa ,Tsukuihama ,Miurakaigan ) 

As you get out from the train station, somewhere in your right side nearby the exit is the bus station, there are FREE buses going from 10 -20 min around the coast most of them have MIURA REINEN as station (either it will take you till the cemetery parking and spare you from another 15 min of walking in the sun or many times it will stop right at the bottom of the road leading you toward the cemetery) . I put the worse ahead and assumed you took a bus which stop at the bottom of the road...do not worry, I'm with you all the way till HIDEKI's resting place. I promise you will reach him fast without scolding out all the graves LOL...so pay attention!!!

So...the bus must have been left you here...hmm...look toward your right side across the street (kindly watch out traffic nee) you will see the entrance toward a street currently is a kind of iron lace fence round...

Here we go, more than half of the way you will find on both sides houses of the village...do not worry keep walking straight ahead till you cross few vegetable and rice fields, than...at a point of the driveway you will see the road splits in 2...a big sign written with green letters notifies you about current position and gives you choices to proceed further...if you can't read Japanese is OK (I don't know to read either...that didn't stop me to "ghost around" for 5 days in a row) anyways...

You are here, the red arrow points you toward right, that is precisely the direction you should follow as you can see the cemetery entrance straight ahead...I know you must been damn tiered now, but think about if you reach so far you can make it just fine, please bare with me 5-10 minutes more :) .

As you reach the cemetery entrance, please guide yourself after the temple/house in the left from in front of the pound garden and follow the road toward left as I draw you on the next image...few more minutes and you're there...no need to frown, and stop winging !!!

Can you smell the incense ? isn't a peaceful place there ? I love it so much :) , keep walking using the edge of the fence as guidance and the big house/temple as land mark .

You will soon see in front of you Ando's grave, few trees and benches, a water pump and a table full with buckets will be in your right side...HIDEKI's grave is right ahead on the alley, you can't miss it is the most beautiful !! always heaving 2 big bunches of purple flowers right-left side of grave stone...and other fans coming from all over will meet you there. POLITE NOTE...on the little green plate on the left side of the entrance it is a special request from family...they ask you all to burn only 2 incense sticks...many people visit HIDEKI daily and lots of smoke from the incense rolls over the granit stone toward the sky...the smoke stains the grave stone and in time it loses the original color and beauty, Please Please respect this aspect when you burn incense to pay respects...you want to exist over the years a place where you'll comeback someday wouldn't you ??? now...ANOTHER POLITE NOTE this time I am the one asking you this, and PLEASE DO NOT TAKE IT IN THE WRONG WAY! if you need to put your flowers in water and there is no space, kindly remove the dry ones from a pot, if water smells bad...refresh it from the nearby pump.If dry leafs or petals fall on HIDEKI's grave kindly remove them, there is a trash basket for dry flowers next to the benches under the trees. If the incense tray is full of ashes, kindly look under the white table in the left side of HIDEKI's tomb stone...you will find inside a small red bucket or a white one...kindly empty the content of the ash tray in there (make sure nothing still burning tough) .

Look ahead, next the dry flowers basket, under the trees you will find 2 distinct trash tanks, one for plastic pet bottles and metal cans and other one smaller, round, shiny silver which is special for ashes and anything that can/will burn...kindly empty the ash from HIDEKI's ash tray over there, Thank You :) ! I know it is too much to ask you to do this, but we don't go to HIDEKI just to snap super covers for our Facebook/Instagram/Twitter pages...WE GO THERE BECAUSE WE LOVE AND MISS HIM...how about WE ALL SHOW HIM A BIT RESPECT ??? if I exagerate with my polite requests I apologize, I honestly mean no harm, I just want that place clean on earth as it is in our hearts...now I know I'm boring you but...PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ANY SOUVENIRS FROM HIDEKI's GRAVE...without knowing you might hold someone else's prayer/dream/wish...love offering