Tokyo Japan Travel Attractions Destinations Map: Yokohama Unusual Full General Cemetery

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The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery inward The Bluff/Yamate district of Yokohama is an of import historical site dating from the slowly Edo together with early on Meiji periods, when Nippon was opening upwards to the globe nether pressure level from Western powers.

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The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery was established inward 1854 when a sailor, Robert Williams, on Commodore Perry's flagship The Mississippi died after a autumn on Perry's minute voyage to Japan.

Permission was asked of the Japanese shogunal authorities to bury the crewman onshore together with to furnish a resting house for whatsoever time to come Americans who died inward Japan.

Part of the grounds of Zotokuin Temple were fix aside together with cause got since function the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery.

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Williams' trunk was subsequently removed to Gyokusenji Temple inward Shimoda together with the oldest graves at Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery are at in 1 lawsuit those of Roman Mophet together with Ivan Sokoloff, ii Russians murdered past times samurai hotheads during the turbulent Bakumatsu Period, when the Tokugawa regime was overthrown inward a spasm of violence to hold upwards replaced past times the novel Meiji government, established inward 1868.

H5N1 modest museum within the cemetery details some of the almost famous people buried inward the cemetery together with provides a map of how to take in their graves.

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Among the foreigners buried hither are Charles Richardson (1834-1862), murdered inward the Namamugi Incident past times Satsuma samurai inward 1862, the Scottish journalist John Reddie Black (1826-1880), Clarence Griffin (1873-1951), who founded the rootage Boy Scouts' troop inward Japan, Englishman George Edward Oakes Ramsay (1839-1885), a principal bounding main captain inward the employ of Mitsubishi, the larger-than-life Henry James Black aka "Kairakutei (Pleasure) Black" (1858-1923), the rootage foreign-born rakugo comic, the French educator Henry Maillot (1831-1874), who taught the Meiji Emperor French inward 1872, countryman Andre Roger Lecomte who introduced the baguette together with French confectionery to Japan, Jennin Mary Kuyper (1872-1923), the Third Principal of Yokohama's Ferris Girls' School, the Irish Gaelic MD Edwin Wheeler (1840-1923) who was influential inward the spread of penal system together with the railway engineers John Diack (1828-1900) together with Edmund Morel (1840-1871).

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The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery
96 Yamate-cho
Naka-ku
Yokohama, 231-0862
Tel: 045 622 1311

Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is a brusk walk from Motomachi-chukagai Station (Exit 6) on the Minato-mirai Line together with is about a divulge of other historic buildings on The Bluff including the Bluff No. 234 Building, the Ellisman Residence, Berrick Hall together with Christ Church. From Sakuragicho Station cause got motorcoach #11 together with larn off at the Motomachi-koen-mae stop.

The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is opened upwards to the populace on weekends together with national holidays.

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