But Teruo and Miyoko Oba say there's nothing eerie about their new family grave site, equipped with a mobile phone bar code to offer connectivity long after their own bells have tolled.
The family plot in this rural city near the Japan Alps boasts a high-tech, "QR" black-and-white square, linking the Oba's pictures and history to phone-carrying visitors who can enter virtually to pay their respects.
Tombstone maker Ishinokoe says the QR codes, which users scan to link with everything in Japan from buses to bookings, are a new way to visit its "memorial service window" grave sites that contain more than the cremated ashes of the deceased.
The Oba family say the new technology offers more options. "I thought the idea was great as usually the deceased don't have any input to how a grave site is arranged," said 73-year-old Teruo.
"Visitors using this service can actually see the departed."
His wife Miyoko, 70, says kids in particular will be connected.
"It's bit of a new approach. We wanted our grandchildren to be able to use it when they visit the family site."
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