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Must See

THE GREAT
HANSHIN
EARTHQUAKE
At 5:46am on January
17, 1995, the Great
Hanshin Earthquake
struck Japan, its epi­
center 10 miles (16 km)
beneath the Akashi
Strait near Kobe. The
tremor lasted almost a
minute and measured
6.9 on the Moment
Magnitude scale. The
quake and aftershocks
Cosmopolitan Kobe’s killed over 6,000 inhab­
eye­catching skyline itants and destroyed
at sunset over 100,000 buildings.

on at a furious pace, and it is
4 " 5 " possible once again to visit
Meriken Park Kikumasamune some of Kobe’s best-known
Shuzo Kinenkan brand-name producers.
⌂ 10-min walk S of
Motomachi Stn # Museum ⌂ 5-min walk N of Minami The Kikumasamune Shuzo
Kinenkan museum offers an
and Port Tower: daily Uozaki Stn # 9:30am–
4:30pm daily insight into the art of making
Meriken Park’s name comes sake. Although the brewery’s
from the Meiji-era rendition of Although most of the best storehouses perished in the
“American.” From the park you breweries were razed during quake, the water-mill cottage
will see the dis tinctive outline the earthquake, reconstruction survived and now houses a
of the Kobe Maritime Museum, and preservation of the few small but interesting display
which has a roof designed like that were left has been going of brewing utensils.
the sails of a ship and houses
displays on the city’s role as a
port. For a good overview of 0 meters 500 N Shin-Kobe Station
0.6 mile (1 km)
the area climb the Kobe Port 0 yards 500 Kitano-cho
P E A R L S T R E E T F L O W E R R O A D
Tower on Naka Pier.
Ikuta K I T A N O - Z A K A
KITANO Shrine
DRINK Sannomiya Sannomiya
Kobe Kokusai
Sorakuen NAKAYAMATE-DORI IKUTA SHIN MI CH I Kaikan
Hamafukutsuru Garden M OTOM ACH I -D ORI FLOW Sannomiya-
Hanadokei-
TOR ROAD
Ginjo Brewery KOI WAWA IKUTA ROAD Mae
At this brewery and Kencho-Mae Motomachi Kobe
City Hall
shop, visitors can take URAMACHI-DORI ER ROAD
a tour to watch the Kyukyoryuchi- OLD FOREIGN
Kikumasamune
fermenting process and S U N S E T - D O R I Daimarumae SETTLEMENT Shuzo Kinenkan
also try a selection of Kobe City 4 miles (6.5 km)
sakes in a tasting. Kobe Station Chinatown MERIKEN RD Museum KYOMACHI Hamafukutsuru
Ginjo Brewery
⌂ 5-min walk from 0.6 mile (1 km) K A I G A N - D O R I 5 miles (8 km)
Hanshin Uozaki Stn Minatomoto- H A N S H I N E X P R E S S W AY 3
machi
SAKAEMACHI-DORI
§ (078) 411-8339
# 10am–5pm Tue–Sun H A M A T E B Y P A S S
Kobe Kobe Maritime
Museum
Port Tower Kobe
Harbour
Meriken Park
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