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Kobe
Kobe's iconic red latticework tower on the harbour, offering panoramic views over the port, the city and the Rokko mountains.
A lively harbour-front shopping and entertainment district with a boardwalk, Ferris wheel and sweeping views across to the Port Tower.
A hillside neighbourhood of preserved Western-style mansions built by foreign traders after Kobe opened to international trade.
One of Japan's largest herb gardens, reached by a scenic ropeway above Kobe, with terraced flower beds, mountain air and panoramic city views.
A celebrated set of waterfalls a short climb behind Shin-Kobe Station, praised in classical Japanese poetry and set in a forested gorge.
One of Japan's oldest shrines, hidden in a pocket of ancient forest in the heart of downtown Kobe near Sannomiya.
Kobe's compact, vibrant Chinatown, packed with street-food stalls and Chinese restaurants around a lantern-lit central plaza.
A tranquil Japanese stroll garden in central Kobe, home to a relocated Western mansion and an ornate former houseboat of a shipbuilding magnate.
A mountaintop viewing complex on Mount Rokko famed for its sweeping 'ten-million-dollar' night view over Kobe, Osaka and the bay.
A landmark harbour-front park beside the Port Tower, home to the Maritime Museum, the 'BE KOBE' sign and an earthquake memorial.
Kobe's flagship history-and-art museum inside a stately 1935 former bank, famed for its Nanban trade collection.
Western Japan's largest art museum, a landmark concrete-and-glass building by architect Tadao Ando on the Kobe waterfront.
Japan's only museum devoted entirely to coffee, run by roaster UCC on Kobe's Port Island.
Moving memorial museum on the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, blending survivor testimony with disaster-preparedness science.
Japan's first museum devoted to clothing and fashion, in a landmark UFO-shaped building on Rokko Island.
A jewel-box museum of tombodama glass beads with hands-on workshops, near the Kitano foreign-quarter.
Elegant museum on Rokko Island devoted to Kobe-born painter Ryohei Koiso, master of Western-style portraiture.
Free museum in a preserved wooden Edo-era brewery showing how Nada's famous sake is made, with tastings.
Free brewery museum focused on traditional dry kimoto sake and the coopers' craft of Nada, with tastings.
Atmospheric wooden brewery museum in western Nada preserving the tools and craft of traditional sake making.
Japan's greatest sake-brewing district — five historic villages of Nada whose breweries make a quarter of the nation's sake.
Historic Kobe beef steakhouse founded in 1885, serving certified teppanyaki grilled at your table.
Kobe's beloved coffee house since 1948, an elegant kissaten epitomising the city's deep-rooted cafe culture.
Century-old Kobe confectioner famed for its crisp Gaufres wafers, with a genteel salon on Motomachi arcade.
