Yokohama
War Cemetery is 9 kilometres west of the city centre on Jido-Yuenchi-Dori,
Hodogaya Ward, which branches about 300 metres left off the old Tokaido
highway. The nearest railway station is Hodogaya, 4 kilometres to
the north.JR Hodogaya Station is for the trains running oi the Yokosuka
Line and some of the Shonan-Shinjuka Line Services. Please note that
only trains on these two lines stop at the station. The cemetery is
then easily reached by bus from Hodogaya Station.To get to the bus
stop leave the railway station at the East exit onto the Tokaido highway.
The bus stop is located on the opposite side of the road and visitors
can cross the highway by using the pedestrian bridge nearby. To get
to the cemetery by bus, the bus route is No.53 and the bus departs
every 20 to 30 minutes during it's operating hours. The stop required
for the cemetery is called "Ei-Renpo-Gun-Bochi", better
known for the "Jido-Yuenchi" or "Yokohama" Botanical
Garden, which is in the same park area as the Yokahama War Cemetery.
The bus stops about 50 yards beyond the cemetrey entrance which is
signposted for the gardens and cemetery. ("El-Renpo-Gun-Bochi"
translates locally as "British Commonwealth Cemetery".)
Yokohama Post War Plot is situated in Yokohama War cemetery and is
reached by going up through the United Kingdom Section, up the steps
to the Indian Section and then following a sloping path.
YOKOHAMA
WAR CEMETERY was constructed by the Australian War Graves Group after
the Second World War and contains the graves of Commonwealth servicemen
who died in Japan as prisoners of war or with the occupying forces
after the war. It comprises of four main parts; the United Kingdom
section, the Australian section, the Canadian and New Zealand section
and the Indian Forces 1939-1945 section. The cemetery contains 1,555
Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the Second World War, including
53 unidentified burials and a small number of special memorials to
casualties known to be buried in the cemetery, whose graves could
not be precisely located. There is also one First World War burial
and a Dutch war grave. The POST WAR PLOT contains 171 non-war service
and civilian burials. The cemetery also contains the YOKOHAMA MEMORIAL
which commemorates 20 members of the Army of Undivided India and the
Royal Indian Air Force who died while serving with the occupation
forces in Japan, for whom no burial or cremation information exists.
The YOKOHAMA CREMATION MEMORIAL, a shrine which houses an urn containing
the ashes of 335 soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Commonwealth,
the United States of America and the Netherlands who died as prisoners
of war in Japan also stands within the cemetery. Their names (save
for 51 who were not identified) are inscribed on the walls of the
shrine.
Details
taken from the Commonwealth
War Graves Commission website