In downtown Tokyo, an unassuming wooden house is preparing to store the remains of more than 2,000 deceased Japanese people.

As Emiko Jozuka reports for Motherboard, each set of ashes lives inside a locker, located directly behind a tiny statue of Buddha.

The entire collection is arranged from floor to ceiling and backlit by a rainbow of neon lights.

This is the new reality for funerals in Japan, where an aging population and expensive end-of-life care market are making traditional burials crowded, expensive, and impersonal. Instead, families must find a new way to honor the dead.

This is what they've come up with.