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The Kobe Port Tower is a landmark in the port city of Kobe, Japan. The sightseeing tower was completed in 1963 and was temporarily closed from late 2009 to 28 April 2010 and again to present for renovation. It is located in Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
Meriken Park is a waterfront park located in the port city of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The park features the Kobe Port Tower, Kobe Maritime Museum, and a memorial to victims of the Great Hanshin earthquake. The name of the park comes from the word "American," which was commonly translated as "Meriken" during the Meiji era. Meriken Park is also the location of the Hotel Okura Kobe and Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel.
The Kobe City Weathercock House is a historical building located in Kitano-cho 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Built in 1904 (Meiji 37) as a residence for German traders, it is a foreign building (Western-style building) and features a heavy brick exterior and a weather vane on the roof. It is called the weathercock house because of the weather vane, and it is also called the former Thomas House and the former Thomas House from the name of the original residents. It has been designated as an important cultural property of Japan.
4. D51 211
The Class D51 (D51形) is a type of 2-8-2 steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the Japanese National Railways (JNR), and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company, Kisha Seizo, Hitachi, Nippon Sharyo, Mitsubishi, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from 1936 to 1945 and 1950 to 1951. 174 units are in preservation in Japan, including five operational examples. A further 13 are preserved in Russia and Taiwan, bringing the total number of preserved units to 187.
5. 摩耶観光ホテル跡
Maya Kanko Hotel (Maya Kanko Hotel) is a hotel that used to operate on the slopes of Mt. Maya in Nada Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It was completed in 1930 and closed in the 1990s. After that, it was ruined, but its value as a modernist building was evaluated, and it was decided to register it as a national tangible cultural property, which is rare in ruins.
6. Kobe Shinkaichi Kirakukan Theater
Kobe Shinkaichi Kirakukan is a vaudeville theater located in Shinkaichi 2-chome, Hyogo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, and opened on July 11, 2018. It is said to be "one of the fixed seats of Kamikata Rakugo after Tenma Tenjin Shigeshotei", and rakugo and other performances are held every day. It is commonly known as Kirakukan.
7. 第4代兵庫県知事陸奥宗光公を讃える石碑
Count Mutsu Munemitsu was a Japanese diplomat and politician. He became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1890 and worked to revise unequal treaties. He served as plenipotentiary at the peace conference in Shimonoseki after the First Sino-Japanese War.
8. Sumadera Temple
Suma-ji Temple is a temple of the Shingon sect of the Suma temple located in Sumaji-cho, Suma-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mr./Ms. Ueno. The main temple is Saint Kannon. 33 places in the new West Country, No. 24. The official name is Fukushoji.
9. World Memorial Hall
World Memorial Hall or World Hall is a multi-purpose arena located in the Chūō-ku Ward of Kobe, Japan. It has a maximum capacity of 8,000 people and is optimized for large-scale meetings, sport events, trade shows and concerts. It is located on the artificial island of Port Island, along with numerous convention centers, hotels and universities.
10. Kobe East Park
Higashi Yuenchi is an urban park managed by the city of Kobe located at 6-chome, Kano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It is located south of the main building of Kobe City Hall and on the west side of Flower Road.
11. Kobe Muslim Mosque
Kobe Mosque , also known as Kobe Muslim Masjid , was founded in October 1935 in Kobe and is Japan's first mosque. It is situated in the Hyōgo Prefecture city of Kobe. Established in October 1935, it holds historical significance as a symbol of the early presence of Islam in Japan. Its construction was funded by donations collected by the Islamic Committee of Kobe from 1928 until its opening in 1935. The mosque was confiscated by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943, survived airaids in n 1945, and withstood the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995. It is located in the Kitano-cho foreign district of Kobe, one of the city's best-known tourist areas which features many old western style buildings.
12. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
Sonbun Memorial Hall is a museum in Maiko Park in Tarumi -ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. The former name is the Sonchu Sankin Kinkan. The octagonal Chinese -style roar, "Kakuikaku", is the oldest concrete block building in Japan, built in 1915, and is designated as a national important cultural property.
13. Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution
The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial Center for People and Disaster Prevention was established with the aim of becoming a global hub for disaster prevention and mitigation. The facility is located at HAT Kobe in Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture.
14. Maya San
Mount Maya is a 698.6-metre-high (2,292 ft) mountain in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. This mountain is one of the major peaks of the Rokkō Mountains, and is the most popular peak for visitors on the West-Rokkō Mountains.
15. 三宮神社
Mr./Ms. Shrine is a shrine located in Sannomiya-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. It is the third pillar of the shrines from Ichinomiya to Hachinomiya (Ikuta Shrine Eight Shrines) that enshrine the eight pillars of Ikuta Shrine, and enshrines the life of Takitsuhime as a deity.
16. Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum is a museum of carpentry tools in Kobe, Japan. The museum was opened in 1984 with the objective of collecting and conserving ancient tools as an example of Japanese cultural heritage, in order to pass them on to the next generation through research and exhibitions.
17. 本願寺神戸別院 (モダン寺)
Honganji Kobe Betsuin is a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect located in Shimoyamate-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. It is a separate temple directly under the Nishi Honganji Temple (Kyoto City) of the main temple of the same school. It is also nicknamed "Modern Temple".
18. 倚松庵
Ishoan is a historical building located in Higashinada Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Former residence of writer Junichiro Tanizaki. It is also called "The House of 'Thin Snow'" after the representative work written here. The name is named after his wife's name, Matsuko.
19. Sumaura Sanjo Yuen Park
Sumaura Mr./Ms. Jōyuen (Sumaura Sanjo Yuen) is a green park that includes a botanical garden and amusement park in Sumaura Park, which spreads around the summits of Mt. Hachibushi and Mt. Hatshinyama in Suma Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It was operated by Sanyo Electric Railway's subsidiary "Sumaura Amusement Park Co., Ltd.", but it was directly managed by Sanyo Electric Railway from December 1, 2019.
20. Onsen-ji
Onsenji Temple is a temple of the Yellow Wood sect located in Arima-cho, Kita-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Arima. The honzon is Yakushi Nyorai. The sect was originally Shingon Buddhism. The official name is Arimayama Onsen Zen Temple.
21. Moegi House
The former Sharp House is a foreign house located in Kitano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It is also known as the "House of Moe Huang". It was designated as an important cultural property of Japan on December 18, 1980.
22. 保久良神社
Hokura Shrine (Hokura Jinja) is a shrine located on Mt. Hokura (on the slopes of Mt. Kintori) in Motoyama-cho, Higashi-nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. It is a Shikiuchi company, and the former company name is Gosha.
23. 御影公会堂
The Kobe City Mikage Public Hall is a historic building located on the east side of the Ishiya River and on the north side of National Route 2, at 4-4 Granite-cho, Higashi-nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo Prefecture. It is registered as a national registered tangible cultural property. In addition to being used as a meeting facility, the Mikage Public Hall cafeteria in the facility is known as a long-established Western-style restaurant that has been in business since its construction.
24. 伊川谷惣社神社
Ikawadani Soja is a shrine located in Kamiwaki, Ikawadani Town, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. One of the shrines that is compared to the Mononobe Shrine in the Enki Shiki Shrine Name Book. The former company name is Gosha. It is also called Soja Shrine.
25. 旧ハッサム住宅
Former Hassam House is a foreign museum located in Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It is said to have been designed by A.N. Hansell, who worked on a number of foreign houses such as the Shweke House and the Gate House. Construction was completed in 1902. The south veranda, which overlooks the vast Japan garden, is an arcade-style on the first floor and a colonnade style on the second floor, which is a feature of the exterior of the house. It is highly regarded as a masterpiece of architecture that conveys the characteristics of the Meiji-era foreign museum, and was designated as an important cultural property of Japan on June 7, 1961.
26. 神戸文化ホール
Kobe Culture Hall (Kobe Bunka Hall) is a music and theater hall located in Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Home of the Kobe Philharmonic. It opened on April 1, 1973 with the aim of improving the culture of the region. There is a large hall and a medium hall.
27. KOBEとんぼ玉ミュージアム
The KOBE Tonbodama Museum (Kobe Tonbodama Museum) is an art museum dedicated to lampwork glass crafts such as lampwork, including lampwork such as dragonfly beads. It is located in a former settlement in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture.
28. 多聞寺
Tamonji Temple is located in Tamondai, Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. Mt. Auspicious Mountain. The main temple is Bishamonten. The curved bridge of the Tsuten Pond in the temple grounds and the oyster butterfly flowers are counted as one of the "Kobe Flower Attractions".
29. Akashi Kaikkyo Bridge Exhibition Center
The Hashi no Science Museum is a science museum located in Tarumi Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It opened in April 1998. The scale is a two-story building with a total floor area of about 1,700 square meters. Previously, it was managed and operated by the Marine Bridge and Bridge Research Foundation, but now it is managed and operated by JB Highway Service Co., Ltd. It is located on the Kobe side of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Maiko Park.
30. Kobe Kitano Museum
The Kobe Kitano Museum of Art is an art museum located in Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The former U.S. Consulate official building built in Meiji 31 (1898), which is a historical building, is used as a facility.
31. Kitano Meister Garden
Kitano Kobo no Machi is an "experiential workshop to encounter the Kobe brand" located in Chuo Ward, Kobe City. It closed on December 28, 2023. The building where the facility used to be is currently closed, and the new facility is scheduled to open after renovation due to the change of management company. The following is information at the time of business.
32. Touri Tenjo-ji
Tōri Tenjō-ji (忉利天上寺), officially Mayazan Tenjō-ji (仏母摩耶山天上寺) or Mayazan Tenjō-ji (摩耶山天上寺), is a Shingon Buddhist temple in eastern Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The temple is located on Mount Maya in the Nada ward of Kobe.
33. 神戸市文書館
The Kobe City Archives is the archive of the city of Kobe in Japan. The building containing the archive is currently located in the Chuo district of Kobe, near Shin-Kobe Station. The building is in Art Deco style, and was recognised as a "significant building" in 2000.
34. Former Residence of Saji Muto
The former Muto Family Residence Western-style building is a Western-style building located in Tarumi Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Other names are the former Muto Yamaji Residence (Kyumu Mr./Ms. Jijii) and the former Kanebo Maiko Club.
35. Motosumiyoshi Shrine
Moto-Sumiyoshi Shrine is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Higashinada ward, Kobe. It is one of the biggest shrines in western Kobe. It is next to Sumiyoshi Station. There is documentary evidence that the shrine has existed since the 13th century.
36. 多井畑厄除八幡宮
Taihata Hachimangu Shrine is a shrine located in Miyawaki Taihata, Suma Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It is commonly known as the Taibata Evil God. Japan's oldest spiritual place to ward off evil.
37. Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery Museum
The Kikumasamune Sake Brewery Memorial Hall is located in Higashinada Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, and is a memorial hall for Kikumasamune Sake Brewery, which exhibits 566 sake brewing materials designated as important tangible folk cultural properties of Japan.
38. Italian House & Decorative Arts Museum
The Italian Pavilion and Platonic Museum of Decorative Arts is a historical building and art museum located in Kitano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. It was opened to the public in 1991. Also with the former Avoy House. A traditional building in the Kitano and Yamamoto districts.
39. Funa-Yakata Pleasure Barge
Funayakata is a historical building "Kawagozafune" located in Sorakuen Gardens in Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. A barge is a ship used by a daimyo in the Edo period for changing attendance and sightseeing, and only a few remain to this day. Among them, this funayagata is the only existing river barge, and due to its rarity and high historical and cultural value, it was designated as an important cultural property of Japan in 1953 (Showa 28).
40. 聖徳院
Shotokuin is a temple located in Chuo-ku, Kobe. Koyasan Shingon Buddhism, quasi-separate main mountain. Honzon : Kobo Daishi Wakibutsu : Fudo Myō Wakibutsu : Aizen Myō (opened in the spring of Heisei 13)
41. Ben's House
Ben's House is a historical building facing Kitano Street in Kitano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It is one of the Western-style buildings that make up the Important Traditional Buildings Preservation District "Kitano-cho Yamamoto-dori" and has been selected as one of the "100 Modern Houses in Hyogo". Also with the former Ferré House.
42. Zenfuku-ji
Zenpukuji Temple is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Soto sect located in Kita-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Kotoku Mr./Ms.. The honzon is Amitabha. It is located at the foot of the deciduous mountains in Arima Onsen Township.
43. 旧小寺家厩舎
The former Kodera family stable is a Western-style stable building located in Sorakuen Gardens in Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It was designed by architect Kozo Kawai and completed in 1910. It was designated as an important cultural property of Japan in 1970.
44. 神戸護国神社
Hyogo Kobe Gokoku Shrine is a shrine (Gokoku Shrine) located in Shinohara Kitamachi, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Eastern Hyogo Prefecture (Tamba, Settsu, Awaji Enshrines 53,257 heroic spirits related to the area. The grounds of the temple grounds are 2,200 tsubo, and cherry trees are planted in the precincts and on the road in front of the shrine to comfort the scattered heroic spirits.
45. Yokan Nagaya French House
Yokan Nagaya is a foreign building facing Kitano Street in Chuo Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Also with the former Bosy House and the Buddha Lan West Wing. It is one of the Western-style buildings that make up the Important Traditional Buildings Preservation District "Kitano-cho Yamamoto-dori" and has been selected as one of the "100 Modern Houses in Hyogo".
46. 岡本梅林公園
Okamoto Plum Forest Park is a park located in Higashinada Ward, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. In addition, there is also a separate plum forest appreciation area called "Hokura Plum Forest" in the same area.
47. Fort Wadamisaki
The Wadamisaki Battery is a coastal defense located in Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Japan. It was built in 1864 by the Tokugawa shogunate in the Bakumatsu period, shortly before the end of the Shōgun's reign. One of many batteries built by the shogunate towards the end of its reign, the Wadamisaki Battery is the only one remaining from several that were built around Osaka Bay and is today listed in the Japanese government's register of historic sites.
48. 神戸市立森林植物園
The Kobe Municipal Arboretum , also known as the Kobe City Forest Botanical Garden, is a 142.6-hectare botanical garden and arboretum located near Mount Maya at 4-1 Nakaichiri-yama, Shimotanigami, Yamada-cho, Kita-ku, Kobe, Japan. It is operated by the city and open daily except Wednesdays; an admission fee is charged.
49. 河内国魂神社
Kawachi Kuni Soul Shrine (Kawachi Kuni Tamajinja / Kawachi no Kuni Tamajinja, Kawachi Kuni Soul Shrine) is a shrine located in Kunitamadori, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. It is a Shikiuchi company, and the former company name is Gosha. Originally, it was called "Gogeten God" and "Gogeten Shrine".
50. Myosenji Temple
Myōsenji Temple is a Buddhist temple of the Rinzai sect located in Myosenji-cho, Nagata-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. It is better known by Dainichiji and Dainichi-Mr./Ms. than by the name of the temple.
51. Sorakuen Garden
The gardens of Sōraku-en (相楽園) are in Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan. Formerly attached to the Taishō-era residence of Kodera Yasujirō, ownership passed to the city of Kobe in 1941. Since then they have been open to the public. Most of the former residence was destroyed in the Pacific War; the stables of 1907 survived and have been designated an Important Cultural Property.
52. 白鶴美術館
Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum opened in 1934 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan to display the collection of Kanō Jihei, seventh head of the Hakutsu Sake Brewing Company . As such it was one of the first private museums in Japan. The collection of some 1450 items includes two National Treasures and twenty-two Important Cultural Properties.
53. 能福寺
Nōfuku-ji (能福寺) is a Buddhist temple that, from the legend, was founded in 805 by the monk Saichō, in Kita Sakasegawa, Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Saichō placed a statue of Yakushi Nyorai of his own making in the temple hall and named the temple Nōfuku Gokoku Mitsu-ji (能福護国密寺).
54. 出雲大社神戸分祠
Izumo Taisha Kobe Branch Shrine is a shrine located in the urban area of Kobe, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. He is known as the "God of Marriage," "the God of Fortune," and the "God of the Ghost." Enshrine the spirit of Izumo Taisha's shrine deity, the Lord of the Kingdom. Also known as "Mr./Ms. Izumo in Kobe"
55. 六甲八幡神社
Rokko Yahata Shrine is a Japanese Shinto shrine near Hankyu Rokko Station in Nada-ku, Kobe. It is one of the biggest shrines in western Kobe along with the Sumiyoshi Shrine. It holds events on New Year's Day, the yakujin festival, setsubun and Shichi-Go-San. The big red torii gate at the entrance to the shopping mall is very large. It is at least 110 years old.
56. Goshikizuka ancient tomb
The Goshikizuka Kofun (五色塚古墳) is a kofun burial mound located in the Goshikiyama neighborhood of Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, in the Kansai region of Japan. The tumulus is the largest in Hyōgo Prefecture, and is estimated to have been built around the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 5th century. It is known as the first kofun to be restored to what archaeologists believe to be its original appearance. It is also known as the Sentsubo Kofun (千壺古墳). Together with the smaller neighboring Kotsubo Kofun (小壺古墳) it was designated a National Historic Site in 1921, with the area under protection extended in 1974, 1979 and 2006.
57. 舞子砲台跡
The Akashi Domain Maiko Battery was a Bakumatsu period coastal artillery battery erected by Akashi Domain on the Seto Inland Sea coast of what is now Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 2007. It is also called the Maiko Hōdai-ato (舞子砲台跡) after its location on Kaji Bay.
58. 香雪美術館
The Kōsetsu Museum of Art is an art museum that opened in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1973. The museum preserves, researches, and displays the collection of Japanese and East Asian artworks—including Buddhist art, calligraphic works, tea utensils, early-modern paintings, arms and armour, and lacquerware—built up by Murayama Ryōhei, also known as Kōsetsu, founder of The Asahi Shimbun. These works include nineteen Important Cultural Properties and twenty-three Important Works of Fine Arts. In December 2021, the museum closed for an extended period of renovation, although exhibition activities continue through the Nakanoshima Kōsetsu Museum of Art in Osaka.
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