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兵庫県 · Art & museums

Churches of Kobe

神戸市阪神・神戸

Churches of many denominations arrived with the port; many fell in 1995, and their rebuilding shows its own era.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Kokoen Garden

姫路市播磨

Nine separate gardens divided by earthen walls, laid over the excavated foundations of samurai houses.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Farmland of Tamba

丹波篠山市但馬

Fog pools in the basin on autumn mornings until the fields read as a sea - crop, terrain and climate as one.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Saw-Tooth Mills of Nishiwaki

西脇市播磨

Roofs shaped to catch even north light for weaving, running along the river - form dictated by the trade.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Uroko no Ie (the Scale House)

摂津（神戸）

A Western house in the Kitano foreign quarter of Kobe, its walls faced with about 4,000 natural stone slabs that look like fish scales.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Design Creative Center Kobe (KIITO)

摂津（神戸）

A centre in the former silk inspection building, run by the city of Kobe as a base for design and creative work.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Meriken Park

摂津（神戸）

A park on Kobe harbour, with the Port Tower and the maritime museum beside a waterfront walk.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Kiku-Masamune Shuzo Kinenkan

摂津（神戸）

A museum at a Nada sake brewery, showing 350 years of brewing tools and process. Free to enter.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Mitsui Outlet Park Marine Pia Kobe

摂津（神戸）

An outlet mall in Tarumi ward, Kobe, facing the sea with the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in view.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Kobe Animal Kingdom

摂津（神戸）

An all-weather facility in Chuo ward, Kobe, where you come close to the birds and animals.

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Kobe Harborland

摂津（神戸）

The district east of Kobe harbour, with shopping and a promenade along the water.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Kobe Port Tower

摂津（神戸）

A 108-metre tower on Kobe harbour, built of red steel in the shape of a hand drum.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Kobe Agri Park

摂津（神戸）

A hands-on agricultural park in Nishi ward, Kobe, with harvesting and places to eat.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Kobe Port Earthquake Memorial Park

摂津（神戸）

A corner of Meriken Park, where the quay broken in the 1995 earthquake is left exactly as it fell.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Kobe Sanda Premium Outlet

摂津（神戸）

An outlet mall in Kita ward, Kobe, among the largest in western Japan.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Kobe City Oji Zoo

摂津（神戸）

A zoo in Nada ward, Kobe, keeping koalas among about 130 species.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Kobe Suma Sea World

摂津（神戸）

An aquarium on Suma beach, the only one in western Japan keeping orcas.

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Kobe City Rokkosan Farm

摂津（神戸）

A farm on the flank of Mount Rokko, high enough to stay cool in summer.

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Kobe Shushinkan (Fukuju)

摂津（神戸）

A brewery in the Nada Gogo district, brewing Fukuju sake, with tours and dining.

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Kobe Nunobiki Herb Garden / Ropeway

摂津（神戸）

A herb garden reached by ropeway from Shin-Kobe Station, with terraced beds on the mountainside.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Sumaura Sanjo Yuen

淡路

An amusement park reached by ropeway and lift from Suma-Ura Park, looking down on the Akashi Strait.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Zuihoji Park

摂津（神戸）

A place known for autumn colour at Arima Onsen, a park on the site of a temple abolished in the early Meiji years.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

生田神社

摂津（神戸）

A shrine at Sannomiya with some 1,800 years of history, held to be the origin of the place name Kobe.

兵庫県 · Regional selections

Sawanotsuru Shiryokan

摂津（神戸）

A brewery museum in the Nada Gogo district, over 300 years in business. Free to enter.