Kōbe

is more the big city in the Préfecture of Hyōgo, located on the island of Honshū near to Ōsaka. The city has one of largest the ports of the Japan.

It counts more than 1,5 million inhabitants mid-June 2005. 3 million inhabitants populates Kōbe and his periphery (Akashi, Kakogawa, etc).

It was one of the first cities to open a commercial connection with the countries of the West, in 1868, and of this fact she is recognized like a cosmopolitan port city. This nature explains why it counts more than 45,000 foreign residents coming of more than 100 different countries.

The January 17th 1995, Kōbe undergoes a Earthquake, which made 5  000 victims, 300  000 without home and destroyed most of the city and port.

Kōbe is known for its European district and its beef but also for the sight that it offers to its inhabitants the night, and its exotic atmosphere which it holds of its harbor nature. There is a onsen (a thermal bath) famous: Arima-Onsen (有馬温泉).

Kobe is frequently associated with the events of mode style Fashion. the Collection Kobe, popular near the female gente was exported besides in the other big cities since 2002, but also in China, with Shanghai.

See the article: Earthquake of Kōbe.

Famous inhabitants

Districts

  • Arrondissements which constituted Kōbe before 1888

    • Chūō-ku the old city of Kōbe
    • Hyōgo-ku the old city of Hyōgo, in the west of Chūō-ku
  • Arrondissements which joined Kōbe before 1945
    • Nagata-ku in the west of Hyōgo-ku
    • Suma-ku in the west of Nagata-ku
    • Nada-ku in the east of Chūō-ku
    • Tarumi-ku in the south-west of Suma-ku
  • Arrondissements which joined Kōbe after 1945
    • Higashinada-ku in the east of Nada-ku
    • Kita-ku in the north of Hyōgo-ku
    • Nishi-ku in the North-West of Suma-ku

International organization

  • Centers It for Development of Health (WKC ・ WHO)
  • the Bureau of the coordination of humanitarian associations (ReliefWeb TEAM ・ OCHA)

Transport

Railroads and rapids, Kōbe at other cities

  • Japan Railways West

    • the station of Shin-Kōbe: new broad outline Sanyō (Shinkansen)
    • the station of Sannomiya: broad outline Sanyō (Kōbe line)
      • Fast Super-Hakuto (with Kamigōri, Tottori)
      • Fast Hamakaze (with Fukusaki, Toyōka)
      • Fast Naha (with Fukuoka, Kumamoto)
      • Fast Suisei (with Kokura, Miyazaki)
      • Fast Akatsuki (with Fukuoka, Nagasaki)
      • Fast Izumo/Seto Sun-small channel (with Shizuoka, Tōkyō)

Suburbs, railroads

  • Railroads west-Japanese
    • broad outline Tōkaidō (line Kōbe)
    • broad outline Sanyō (Kōbe line)
    • line Fukechiyama (Takarazuka line)
  • electric Railroads Hankyū
    • line Kōbe
  • electric Railroads Hanshin
    • the broad outline
  • electric Railroads Kōbe (Shintetsu)
    • line Arima
    • line Sanda
    • line Ao
  • municipal Subway
    • line Seishin

Subway, tram

  • Railroads west-Japanese

    • line Oidamisaki
  • electric Railroads Sanyō
    • the broad outline
  • fast Railroads Kōbe
    • line Tosai
    • line Nanboku
  • municipal Subway
    • line Yamate
    • line Seishin
    • line Kaigan
  • fast electric Railroads Hokushin
    • line Hokushin
  • Caubé new transport
    • island-harbor line
    • line island Rokkō

Twinnings

External bond

  • Official site of the town of Kōbe

Simple: Kobe

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