What you’ll see & do
Kobe (神戸) — the name means “god’s door” — has been an international port city since the 1860s, when it was opened to foreign trade following the end of the Tokugawa isolation. The Western merchants, Chinese traders and Indian businessmen who settled here left a city of unusual cosmopolitan depth: European-style villas in Kitano-cho, a Chinatown founded by Qing-era traders, and a beef industry that became world-famous.
On this private full-day tour your guide takes you through the city’s distinct layers — the hillside foreign settlement of Kitano-cho, the cable car up to Mount Rokko’s views, the Nankinmachi Chinatown and the Nada-Gogo sake district on the eastern edge of the city, where the hard water from Mount Rokko has been producing exceptional sake for four centuries.
Kobe is thirty minutes from Osaka and one hour from Kyoto. It is consistently overlooked by visitors who do not realise what it contains.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
LANGUAGE
English · Japanese
AVAILABILITY
Year-round
All private, bookable directly
MEETING POINT
Your hotel lobby
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