Opened in 1888 on a quiet hillside above the harbour, this is one of the oldest foreign cemeteries in Japan. Around 600 graves of merchants, missionaries, doctors, and sailors from a dozen countries are laid out among ageing camphor trees. The headstones are written in English, Russian, Chinese, French, German, and Dutch. Among the dead is Robert Walker, a Scottish trader whose daughter Tama is the woman Pierre Loti is said to have written about in his novel Madame Chrysanthème, the inspiration for Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Best visited on a clear morning when the sea light reaches into the cemetery.