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Hyogo

Kobe

Kōbe is a historic port city in the Prefecture of . Together with and , it makes up the three-city agglomeration of Keihanshin, Japan's largest after greater Tokyo.
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  • Type: City with 1,540,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kōbe”, “Kobe City”, “Kobe-shi”, and “Kōbe-shi”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kobe Port Tower and Nankinmachi.

Scenic viewpoint
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The is a landmark in the port city of Kobe, . The sightseeing tower was completed in 1963 and was temporarily closed from late 2009 to 28 April 2010 and again from 27 September 2021 to 26 April 2024 for renovation.

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Nankin-machi is a neighborhood in Kobe, Japan located south of station adjacent to the Department Store and is a major tourist attraction.

Museum
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The Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art is a purpose built municipal art gallery in , Kobe, , . It was opened in 2002. The major collections of the museum are foreign and Japanese sculptures, foreign and Japanese prints, Western-style and Japanese-style paintings associated with Hyogo Prefecture, Japanese greatworks in modern era, and contemporary art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chuo-ku and Hyogo-ku.

Suburb
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Chūō is one of 9 wards of Kobe, . It has an area of 28.46 km2, and a population of 127,602 with 74,814 households as of January 31, 2012. The ward was formed from the 1980 merger of the former Fukiai-ku and Ikuta-ku.

Suburb
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Hyogo is one of nine wards of Kobe, . It has an area of 14.68 km2 and a population of 109,144. The area's location with a natural harbour near the which links and the Seto inland sea has been an important location throughout the history of Japan.

Suburb
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Nada is one of nine wards of Kobe, . It has an area of 31.4 km², and a population of 129,095. A leading national university, Kobe University, is located in this ward, as is the city's Oji Zoo.

Kobe

Latitude
34.6932° or 34° 41′ 36″ north
Longitude
135.1944° or 135° 11′ 40″ east
Population
1,540,000
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP UKB
Open location code
8Q6QM5VV+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 721818614
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1859171
Wiki­data ID
Q48320
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kobe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kobe”
  • Arabic: “كوبه، هيوغو”
  • Arabic: “كوبه”
  • Arabic: “كوبي، هيوغو”
  • Arabic: “كوبي”
  • Aragonese: “Kobe”
  • Armenian: “Կոբե”
  • Asturian: “Kōbe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kobe”
  • Balinese: “Kobé”
  • Basque: “Kobe”
  • Basque: “Kōbe”
  • Belarusian: “Кобэ”
  • Bengali: “কোবি”
  • Bengali: “কৌবে”
  • Breton: “Kobe”
  • Bulgarian: “Кобе”
  • Burmese: “ကိုးဘေးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kobe”
  • Catalan: “Kōbe”
  • Cebuano: “Kobe (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Kobe”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆبێ”
  • Chechen: “Кобе”
  • Chinese: “Kôbe-chhī”
  • Chinese: “神戶”
  • Chinese: “神戶市”
  • Chinese: “神户”
  • Chinese: “神户市”
  • Chinese: “神戸”
  • Chinese: “神戸市”
  • Croatian: “Kobe”
  • Czech: “Kóbe”
  • Danish: “Kobe”
  • Dutch: “Kobe”
  • Dutch: “Kōbe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوبه”
  • Esperanto: “Kobe”
  • Esperanto: “Kōbe”
  • Esperanto: “Kobeo”
  • Estonian: “Kobe”
  • Estonian: “Kōbe”
  • Extremaduran: “Kobe”
  • Faroese: “Kobe”
  • Fijian: “Kobe”
  • Finnish: “Kobe”
  • Finnish: “Kōbe”
  • French: “Kobe”
  • French: “Kobé”
  • French: “Kôbe”
  • French: “Kōbe”
  • Galician: “Kobe”
  • Galician: “Kōbe”
  • Ganda: “Kobe japan”
  • Georgian: “კობე”
  • German: “Kobe”
  • German: “Kōbe”
  • Greek: “Κōμπε”
  • Greek: “Κόμπε”
  • Gujarati: “કોબે”
  • Hausa: “Kobe”
  • Hebrew: “קובה”
  • Hindi: “कोबे”
  • Hungarian: “Kobe”
  • Hungarian: “Kóbe”
  • Icelandic: “Kobe”
  • Ido: “Kobe”
  • Indonesian: “Kobe”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Kobe”
  • Irish: “Kobe”
  • Irish: “Kōbe”
  • Italian: “Kobe”
  • Italian: “Kōbe”
  • Japanese: “Kōbe-shi”
  • Japanese: “こうべし”
  • Japanese: “神戸”
  • Japanese: “神戸市”
  • Kabyle: “Kobe”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kobe”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಬೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಬ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Kobe”
  • Kirghiz: “Кобе”
  • Korean: “고베 시”
  • Korean: “고베”
  • Korean: “고베시”
  • Korean: “코베 시”
  • Korean: “코베”
  • Latvian: “Kobe”
  • Limburgan: “Kobe”
  • Literary Chinese: “神戶市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kobe”
  • Lithuanian: “Kobė”
  • Lombard: “Kōbe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kobe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kōbe”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kōbe”
  • Macedonian: “Кобе”
  • Malagasy: “Kobe”
  • Malay: “Kobe”
  • Malayalam: “കോബെ”
  • Maltese: “Kobe”
  • Maltese: “Kōbe”
  • Maori: “Kobe”
  • Marathi: “कोबे”
  • Mazanderani: “کوبه، هیوگو”
  • Mazanderani: “کوبه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kobe-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kôbe-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Кобэ”
  • Mongolian: “Кобэ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kōbe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kobe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kōbe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kobe”
  • Norwegian: “Kobe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kobe”
  • Ossetian: “Кобе”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਬੇ”
  • Persian: “کوبه”
  • Piemontese: “Kobe”
  • Polish: “Kobe”
  • Polish: “Kōbe”
  • Pontic: “Κόμπε”
  • Portuguese: “Kobe”
  • Portuguese: “Kōbe”
  • Quechua: “Kōbe”
  • Romanian: “Kobe”
  • Russian: “Кобе Хёго”
  • Russian: “Кобе, Хего”
  • Russian: “Кобе, Хёго”
  • Russian: “Кобе”
  • Russian: “Кобэ Хёго”
  • Russian: “Кобэ, Хего”
  • Russian: “Кобэ, Хёго”
  • Russian: “Кобэ”
  • Russian: “Хёго Кобе”
  • Russian: “Хёго Кобэ”
  • Sardinian: “Kōbe”
  • Scots: “Kobe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kobe”
  • Serbian: “Kōbe”
  • Serbian: “Кобе”
  • Serbian: “神戸市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kobe”
  • Silesian: “Kobe”
  • Sinhala: “කෝබේ”
  • Slovak: “Kobe”
  • Slovak: “Kóbe”
  • Slovenian: “Kobe”
  • Slovenian: “Kōbe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوبه، هیوقو”
  • Spanish: “Ko be”
  • Spanish: “Ko-be”
  • Spanish: “Kobe”
  • Spanish: “Kōbe”
  • Spanish: “Koube”
  • Sundanese: “Kobe”
  • Swahili: “Kobe, Hyogo”
  • Swahili: “Kobe”
  • Swedish: “Kobe”
  • Tagalog: “City of Kobe”
  • Tagalog: “Kobe City”
  • Tagalog: “Kobe”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Kobe”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Kobe”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Kobe”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Kobe”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Kobe”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Kobe”
  • Tajik: “Кобе”
  • Tamil: “கோபே”
  • Tatar: “Кобе”
  • Telugu: “కోబే”
  • Thai: “โกเบ”
  • Thai: “โกเบะ”
  • Thai: “โคเบะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Kobe”
  • Turkish: “Kobe”
  • Turkish: “Kōbe”
  • Twi: “Kobe”
  • Uighur: “Kobe”
  • Ukrainian: “Кобе”
  • Urdu: “کوبے”
  • Uzbek: “Kobe”
  • Venetian: “Kōbe”
  • Veps: “Kobe (lidn)”
  • Veps: “Kobe”
  • Vietnamese: “Kobe”
  • Vietnamese: “Kobé”
  • Vietnamese: “Kōbe”
  • Vietnamese: “Thần Hộ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kobe”
  • Welsh: “Kobe”
  • Welsh: “Kōbe”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوبے”
  • Wu Chinese: “神户市”
  • Yue Chinese: “神戶”
  • Yue Chinese: “神戶市”
  • Zeeuws: “Kobe”
  • “Kōbe”
  • “Kōbe-shi”
  • “神戸市”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kobe”. Photo: Naokijp, CC BY-SA 4.0.