6 Culture Meriken Park in Hyogo Lily Meriken Park, a waterfront park created from reclaimed land in Kobe City in 1987, was refurbished in 2017.
Festivals Nankinmachi Spring Festival 2026 Feb 17th - Feb 23rd If you're in the Kobe area and looking for a way to celebrate Lunar New Year, check out the Nankinmachi Spring Festival.
14 Gardens & Parks Charming Water Lilies Elena Lisina The photos of water lilies of different sorts and colors that grow in the indoor pond at the Kobe Animal Kingdom.
Historical Visiting Kobe's Ikuta-Jinja Shrine Lygia Priscilla In Japan's port city of Kobe, Ikuta-jinja is a captivating shinto shrine, one of the oldest in Japan, built by the Jingu empire in the early 3rd century
19 Culture Indoor Parks and Greenhouses Elena Lisina Kobe Animal Kingdom is quite a big park located on the Port Island of Kobe... City, and can be reached by Port Liner from central Kobe.
Culture Cherry Blossoms, Animals and the Edge of the Earth Elena Lisina My 3rd trip to Japan featured trips to Kawasaki, Osaka, Nara, Kobe and was filled with great impressions.
Culture Osaka to Hiroshima: Stop on the Way Peter Sidell smoothly out of Shin-Osaka station and heading west, we come in order to: Kobe... Compact and lively, Kobe packs a lot into a narrow strip between sea and