Aoyama (青山; lit:Blue mountain) is a neighborhood of Tokyo, located in the northeastern Minato Ward. During the Edo Period, Aoyama was home to various temples, shrines, and samurai residences. The name Aoyama derived from a samurai Aoyama who served the Tokugawa Shogunate and held his mantion in this area. Today, along with Shibuya and Harajuku, it is one of the most popular entertainment and shopping areas for young people in Tokyo. It is well known for its fashion houses, restaurants, and shopping. Chichibunomiya rugby stadium is in the North part of Aoyama. Long a symbol of Tokyo, the Nijubashi Bridge at the Kokyo Imperial Palace. ... Minato (港区; -ku) is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. ... The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo-jidai) is a division of Japanese history running from 1600 to 1867. ... Categories: Wards of Tokyo | Japan geography stubs ... Jump to: navigation, search Harajuku Station at night Street performers on the bridge by Harajuku Station Harajuku (原宿) is the common name for the area around Harajuku Station on the Yamanote Line in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan. ... Chichibunomiya 秩父宮 rugby stadium in the Kita Aoyama district of central Tokyo is the spiritual home of Japanese rugby and the headquarters of the Japan Rugby Football Union. ...

Aoyama municipal cemetery

Aoyama is also the location of Japan's first municipal cemetery, Aoyama Reien, which was opened in 1872. Many noted foreigners are buried in the small foreign section of the cemetery, which is currently (2005) at risk of being cleared to make a park. Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery or graveyard is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Famous non-Japanese buried at Aoyama Reien include the British minister plenipotentiary Hugh Fraser who died in the post in 1894, Captain Francis Brinkley, Guido Verbeck, Henry Spencer Palmer, Edoardo Chiossone, Joseph Heco, Julius Scriba and several others. The following is a chronological list of British heads of mission (ministers and ambassadors) in Japan, 1859–2004. ... Hugh Fraser ( February 22, 1837– June 4, 1894) headed the British Legation in Tokyo as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary in the final stages of the negotiations which led to the signing on July 16, 1894 of the revised treaty (called the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation) between... Captain Francis Brinkley (1841-1912) died aged 73 in Tokyo in October 1912. ... Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck (or Verbeek) was born on January 28, 1830 in the Dutch city of Zeist. ... Major General Henry Spencer Palmer (1838-1893) was born at Bangalore, India on April 30, 1838. ... Edoardo Chiossone (1833-April 11, 1898) was born in Arenzano, near Genoa, in 1833. ... Joseph Heco (1837-1897), was a fisherman from the province of Sanyodo (Japan), who went to sea in 1850. ... Julius Karl Scriba (1848-1905) was a German doctor of medicine and taught surgery in The Imperial University of Tokyo, 1881-1901. ...

See also

• Foreign cemeteries in Japan

The foreign cemeteries (gaijin bochi) in Japan are chiefly located in Tokyo and at the former treaty ports of Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, and Hakodate. ...

External links

• The Foreign Section Trust - formed in 2005 to preserve the foreign section of Aoyama cemetery in Tokyo.