Naka-ku / Yokohama

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Yamate / foreign settlement - "The Bluff"

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Yamate foreigners cemetery
gaikokujin-bochi in the hills of Yokohama

At the end of the isolation period in the 1850s, when the shogunate prohibited nearly all kind of interactions with other foreign countries, foreign traders were permitted to reside in Yokohama. The Chinese made themselves a Chinatown in the center of the city, the Westerners started to live in the hills of Yamate area, which was also called "The Bluff": The foreign cemetry already started to be used from 1854, when first American and later Russian sailors were buried.


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bust of Richard Henry Brunton (1841-1901)
British architect - father of Japanese lighthouses
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Yamate 234-ban-kan
ASAKA Kichizô
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Uchidake-Jûtaku - residental building from 1910
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church built in 1933 - Church of the Sacred Heart
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school built in 1931 - Yokohama-Kyôritsu-Gakuen
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residental building built in1930 - Berrick Hall
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Christ Church (1931) - interior view
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foreigners cemetery
外国人墓地
gaikokujin-bochi

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foreigners´ cemetery = gaikokujin-bochi  (2)
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foreigners´ cemetery - s.a. graveyard / tradition  (3)
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foreigners´ cemetery  (4)
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foreigners´ cemetery  (5)
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foreigners´ cemetery  (6)
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