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The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery Museum is a small stone building, the Cemetery Office, just within the main gate of the in Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery in The Bluff/Yamate district of Yokohama.

The museum details some of the most famous people buried in the cemetery and also provides a map of how to visit their graves. In addition there are interesting panel displays of photos of Yokohama and details of some of the fascinating people and events associated with Yokohama during its early history as a Treaty Port when foreigners first began to live and visit the port.

Some of the interesting people who passed through Yokohama at that time were Richard Risley (1814?1874), an American circus performer known for his incredible feats of foot juggling. Risley came to Japan in 1864 with "ten performers and eight horses" and staged the first western circus events in Yokohama including shows with Japanese acrobats. However, as he was forbidden to perform outside Yokohama by the Japanese authorities he ran into financial difficulties and thus set up Japan's first dairy selling milk from diary cows imported from San Francisco and ice cream manufactured in an ice-house with ice from China.
Risley is famous for taking a troupe of Japanese acrobats to the Paris Expo of 1867 for which the first ever Japanese passports, numbers 1-18 were issued for the performers. A further set of passports 19-27 were then issued for another troupe of performers le...