Kobe Japan
is considered as one of the ten largest cities in Japan. It is the
capital of Hyogo Perfecture which is located between the sea and a
mountain range what is so called as Rokko. Kobe has been playing an
important role to develop the foreign trading in Japan since the 19th
century. For many people, especially those who love culinary world.
Kobe is famous of the
wagyu beef. Wagyu is considered as a heavenly good meat for steak due to
the tenderness and the flavor of the meat. If you want to enjoy this
meat, you can visit teppanyaki restaurants. But be ready to spend a lot
of money. Besides the wagyu meat, Kobe is also known as a good and
wonderful place to visit. It offers several tourist attractions.
- Sorakuen Garden
It is a Japanese garden located in the center of the city of Kobe.
Before being opened in 1941, Sorakuen Garden was the garden in Kodera
Kenkichi’s residence. Several buildings used to stand in the garden but
all disappeared due to the war except the stable.
- Kitano
If you visit Kobe, you should visit Kitano. Kitano offers an
unforgettable experience to visit several mansions of foreign merchants
and diplomats which now are opened as museums. You can adore the
architectures and antique furnitures which are mostly different from one
mansion to other mansions. By paying 300 to 500 yen, you can visit
- England House
It was built in 1907 and adorned with furnitures from the year.
- France House (Yokan Nagaya)
It is decorated with furnitures originated from France including Louis Vuitton.
- Ben’s House
It used to be a house of Ben Allison, a hunter. The house kept stuffed animals
- Italian House
You can find many goods, artworks, and ornaments in this house.
- Former Chinese Consulate
Chinese furnitures and items make this house look unique and ancient.
- Kitano Foreigners Association
See the club bars, lounge, and old kitchen.
- Yamate Hachibankan
It displays the works of Rodin, Bourdelle, and Renoir.
- Uroko House and Uroko Museum
It keeps the paintings by Russian famous painters and the antique furnitures.
- Dutch Museum and Fragance House
Besides adoring the Dutch furniture, you can smell and buy scented soaps and perfumes.
- Kobe Harborland
As the name implies, Kobe Harborland offers shopping areas, cinema, restaurants, and amusement park along the seashore.
- Kobe City Museum
Kobe City Museum is a unique museum since ut combines the collections
from Namban Art Museum and Kobe Archaeological Museum. Therefore, you
can find artworks, paintings, maps of all regions in Japan, and
artifacts in one museum. The art is called Namban because the style of
this art was initiated during the contact with Western through trading
in 1500s.
- Meriken Park
This park offers the view of the port. You can visit the Kobe Port
Tower and Kobe Maritim Museum. This museum keeps the collections of
modern ship models. You can also learn the history about the port and
the trading system of Japan with foreign countries. Kobe Maritim Museum
spends half of the buildings for Kawasaki Good Time World which
exhibits the machines and vehicles produced by Kawasaki. Spend your time
to visit the Kobe Port Tower. On the top of this 108-meter-high tower
you can enjoy the view of Kobe from the restaurant and rotating cafe.
You can also visit the memorial site to commemorate the victims of the
earthquake died in the port in 1995.
- Chinatown
Like Yokohama, Kobe also has its Chinatown. It is located in the
Kansai Region. You can visit many shops, restaurants, and food stalls in
it.
- Shin-Kobe Ropeway
Experience the sensation of traveling through Rokko mountain from
ropeway.You can enjoy the beautiful view of the Nunobiki Waterfall,
Nunobiki Herb Garden, and the sky. Traveling through this ropeway also
picks you to a restaurant, rest house, cafe, and shop which sells herbal
products and aromatic products. Mount Rokko itself is a perfect place
to see the view of Kobe and Osaka.
- Arima Onsen
Do you need time to relax? Visit Arima Onseb where you can enjoy the
relaxing hot spring. You can have the hot spring bathing in public bath
houses like Kim no Yu, Gim no Yu, Taiko no Yu, or Goshobo.
