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Kikumasamune Shuzo VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Kinenkan, a sake museum
located within 3 min utes’ Practical Information
walk of Rokko Liner Hyogo prefecture. * 1,545,000.
Minami Uozaki station. n in front of JR Sannomiya stn
Although its storehouses (078) 322-0220.
perished in the quake, the ∑ feel-kobe.jp
water mill cottage sur vived Transport
and now houses a small k Kobe airport, 18 mins by
Sake brewery in Kobe, open to visitors but interesting dis play Port Liner to Sannomiya stn;
of brewing utensils. At Kansai airport, 25 mins by high-
Island lies Meriken Park. Meriken Hamafuku Ginjo Brewery and speed boat, The Bay Shuttle;
was the Meiji era rendition of Shop, a 5-minute stroll from Port Island. £ JR Shin-Kobe stn,
“American.” From the park you Hanshin Uozaki station, visi tors Sanyo Shinkansen line;
will see the distinctive outline of can watch the fermenting Sannomiya stn, JR Tokkaido,
the Kobe Maritime Museum, process. Sake-tasting takes Hankyu, & Hanshin lines.
which has a roof designed like place at both breweries.
the sails of a ship. The displays
inside it focus on the city’s role Environs shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi
as a port. For a good overview Behind Shin-Kobe station, and his wife, who sometimes
of the area climb the Kobe Port the Nuno biki Falls, with four came with the tea ceremony
Tower on Naka Pier. cascades, have been celebrated master, Sen no Rikyu.
in Japanese literature since the
E Nada Sake Breweries 10th century. Mount Rok ko, the
Although most of the best highest peak of the chain of the
breweries were razed during same name, can be reached by
the earthquake, reconstruction cable car or rope way. The view
and preservation of the few of the Inland Sea and city below
that were left has been going is sen sational. On the north
on at a furious pace, and it is slope is Arima Onsen, a spa that
now possible once again to has been operating since the
visit some of the best-known 7th century. The waters were
brand-name producers. a favorite of the 16th-century The ropeway leading up to Mount Rokko

Kobe City Center
1 Kitano-cho Kitano-Cho Shin-Kobe
2 Chinatown Nunobiki Falls,
Station
3 Kobe City Museum Mount Rokko
4 Kobe Port Tower PEARL STREET
5 Kobe Maritime Museum Ikuta Shrine KITANO-ZAKA
6 Meriken Park KITANO Sannomiya Nada Sake
Breweries
N AKAYA MATE- DO R I Sannomiya Kobe Kokusai
Sorakuen IKUTA SHINMICHI Kaikan
MOTOMACHI-DORI
Garden
TOR ROAD
Kencho-Mae IKUTA ROAD Kobe
KOIWAWA
City Hall
Motomachi
FLOWER ROAD
Kobe OLD FOREIGN
Station
SETTLEMENT 60 km (37 miles)
Kansai Airport
CHINATOWN
Kobe City K Y OM AC H I
Museum
MERIKEN RD
KAIGAN-DORI
Himeji H A N S H I N E X P R E S S W A Y 3 Kobe Airport
5 km (3 miles)
0 meters 500 Castle
HAMATE BYPASS
0 yards 500
Kobe Maritime
Kobe Museum
Port Tower
Kobe
Naka Tottei Harbour
Pier Meriken
Park
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