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Mt. Rokko / Arima

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Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery Museum

4.0

97 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Uozakinishimachi 1-9-1

"You can reach this museum by getting off at the JR Rokko Liner's Minami-Uozaki Station, taking the elevator to the first floor, and walking two minutes northwest. The museum displays an array of small sake related items, as well as the ""Nada-based Sake Brewery's Equipment,"" a nationally designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property. The original building collapsed in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and the current structure incorporates some of its beams and pillars. Interacting with the equipment will give you a feel for the traditional Kimoto method for brewing sake, as well as the work and life of the brewers. They have tastings that include raw, unprocessed sake as well. Their original Sakagura Soft Serve Ice Cream is a hit."

We just spent a wonderful morning at the brewery. An informative video, small exhibition and tasting. Rather than walking to another brewery, we decided to take the tour of factory where they make...
Yuzuruha Shrine

4.0

63 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Mikagegunge 2-9-27

Located about a five-minute walk southeast from the Hankyu Kobe Line's Mikage Station, many visitors come to this Shinto shrine with its symbol of a mythical raven to pray for victory. The shrine has deep ties to Japanese soccer, as Japan's first soccer team hails from Mikage. The shrine shares its raven symbol with the Japan Football Association, and there's even a granite soccer ball statue installed beside the main hall. The figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu has come here to pray before competitions, so it's become a sort of sacred spot for his fans and those who want to cheer him on.

Yuzuruha Shrine is located near Hankyu Mikage station. It is an old shrine, which foundation remount to Heian Period. But recently it attracts the attention of the people, because its name recalls a...
HAKUTSURU Sake Brewery Museum

4.0

6 Reviews

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Hyogo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Sumiyoshiminamimachi 4-5-5

This sake brewery museum is located in Kobe City. The Hakutsuru Sake Brewery which was built in the Taisho period is being used in its original form. Exhibitions on display in the museum include materials related to the brewing of “sake” (Japanese rice wine), tools actually used in the process of sake brewing and an exhibition of dummies that recreate the details of making sake in accordance with old-fashioned manufacturing processes. The process of making refined sake is introduced in a way which is easy to understand from washing the rice, introduction of “koji” (malted rice) to the filling of casks. There is also a free sake tasting corner and a shop.

スタッフの男性の対応が高圧的であまり印象が良くありませんでした。試飲も出来たり館内の雰囲気は良かったです。
Sawanotsuru Sake Museum

4.0

41 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Nada-ku Oishiminamimachi 1-29-1

The Sawanotsuru Sake Museum is 10 minutes on foot from Hanshin Oishi Station in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Housed in the Oishi Kura that was built over 170 years ago in the late Edo period, the museum educates the public about sake brewing culture and features exhibits on traditional Nada Sake brewing. These include valuable sake making equipment like large sake barrels from Sawanotsuru's 300-plus-year history, as well as models of Japanese ships such as Kitamae / Sengoku-bune that were used for sake transport. There is also a museum shop where visitors can enjoy free tastings of unprocessed sake.

Two floors of exhibits inside a real sake brewery building thats declared a cultural treasure by the government. Theres a small garden with a well and the exterior is a nice photographic subject...
Kobe Fashion Museum

4.0

37 Reviews

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Hyogo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Kouyouchounaka 2-9-1

The first national art museum focused on fashion, Kobe Fashion Museum is located on Rokko Island, a seaborne city in Higashinada Ward in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. It boasts a unique design that resembles a UFO. Exhibits are on the first floor and include the basic exhibits, which feature a rich collection of items, and special exhibits hosted in other buildings. There is also a library featuring 40,000 books and magazines about fashion from both Japan and around the world, as well as a museum shop with artist contributions, an event hall, and other facilities.

In one section a person can try on costumes and have a photo taken, and with video see themselves in additional costumes. Actual clothing display is in one large room, perhaps forty examples mostly...
Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art

4.0

47 Reviews

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Hyogo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Kouyouchounaka 5-7

This art museum is on Rokko Island, a “floating city” in Higashinada Ward, Kobe City. It stores and displays over 2,000 works of art by Ryohei Koiso, an oil painter with a connection to Kobe. It is one of the largest personal art museums in Japan, and in addition to the various works shown in the three exhibit rooms, it hosts many special exhibitions as well. In the courtyard is a reconstructed and restored studio that Ryohei Koiso used to use while he was alive.

The Koiso Museum is newly refurbished and an interesting stop while you are in Kobe. It is primarily dedicated to Ryohei Koiso who was an active artist from the 1930s through the 1960s. He spent time...
Tenjoji Temple

4.0

34 Reviews

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Hyogo Kobe-shi Nada-ku Mayasancho 2-12

"This Buddhist temple is in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. You can reach it by taking a Kobe City bus to Maya Cable Shita, taking the Maya Ropeway to Hoshi-no-Shita Station, and then walking about ten minutes. It's a sacred site on devotional circuits like the Floral Temples of the Kansai Region, the New Saigoku, and the Kobe Jusanbutsu pilgrimages. It was founded in 646 by Hodo Sennin on the orders of Emperor Kotoku. On the precincts you'll find the Tenjikudo Hall that enshrines a marble image brought from India of Maya, the historical Buddha's wife, as well as the Hana Mandala Bell cast with the imprints of 33 kinds of flowers. The principle object of worship is a hibutsu ""hidden image"" that's thought to ward off evil and invite prosperity."

Absolutely fantastic place. Beautiful temple in high mountains without thousands of people. So peaceful and quiet.
Arima Toy Museum

4.0

46 Reviews

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Hyogo Pref. Koubeshi Kita-ku Arimachou 797

This is a museum in the Arima Onsen area of Kita Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, which displays and introduces its collection of toys domestic and imported. The 4,000 articles in the collection are displayed in four themed areas. Here both children and adults can enjoy tin-sheet toys, railway dioramas, nutcracker dolls, traditional German toys, and modern European toys. There is also a space where toys can actually be played with. On the fourth floor is the British mechanical doll “Automata” through which one can learn about current techniques and craftsmanship.

We visited Arima toy museum during our stay in Arima Onsen. This is a nice, well displayed museum with many different collections. We found out from the local map and tried that out and we were glad...
Sakura-Masamune Memorial Museum Sakuraen

3.5

35 Reviews

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Hyogo Kobe-shi Higashinada-ku Uozakiminamimachi 4-3-18

A five-minute walk from Uozaki Station on the Hanshin Electric Railway. This museum displays sake brewing equipment, old fashioned signboards, sake bottles, labels, and other items which speak of the history of Sakura Masamune, a sake brewing company founded 300 years ago and whose origins date back 400 years. The museum also shows rare footage of how sake was once made in Japan. The museum is adjoined by a Japanese restaurant, exhibition gallery, and cafe. The Sakura shop sells fresh made sake brewed in a separate building by volume and also carries local specialty and famous products which make perfect gifts and souvenirs.

Good place for sake tasting, before purchase. The exhibition is also very interesting if you have not visit one before.
Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum

4.5

26 Reviews

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Hyogo Kobe-shi Higashinada-ku Sumiyoshi Yamate 6-1-1

This art museum is located in the 6 Chome Sumiyoshi-yamate, Higashinada-ku, Kobe City. It opened in 1934 based on the ancient art collection of the seventh-generation owner of Hakutsuru Breweries, Jihei Kano. The museum houses over 1,400 antiques including National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties, such as bronzeware, ceramics, books and paintings, and is open only during the spring and autumn exhibitions. In addition, there is also a new building that holds a Middle Eastern carpet collection.

The museum is famous for its world-class collection of ancient Chinese bronze work, but it also holds valuable collection of other art works, such as porcelain, lacquer ware, and painting...
Rokko Yahata Shrine

4.0

25 Reviews

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Hyogo Kobe-shi Nada-ku Yahatacho 3-6-5

"A deity of warding off evil located south to Hankyu Rokko Station. Yahata-no-Ookami, Amaterasu-Oomikami, and Kasuga-no-Ookami are enshrined in the precincts of the shrine, which is nicknamed ""Hachiman-san"". There are various theories as to the origin of the shrine, and it is said to have been founded either during the Manju period (1024-1028) or around 1180, when the capital was moved to Fukuhara by Taira no Kiyomori. The Yaku-yoke (warding off evil) Festival, held annually on January 18-19, attracts a lot of people who come to the precincts and the approach to the shrine to buy ""Hamaya"" (arrow-shaped amulet) to ward off evil."

暗くなってしまった為、やや心配したのですが境内は開放されており、拝殿には電気も灯っており、参拝が可能でした。因みに阪急六甲駅から直ぐ近くに境内が広がっており、境内と抜けて行き来する地元の方も目立っていました。
Hyogoken Kobe Gokoku Shrine

3.5

14 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyogo Kobe-shi Nada-ku Shinoharakitamachi 4-5-1

This shrine is located in a quiet residential district about a five-minute drive from Hankyu Rokko Station. Cherry trees have been planted along the busway in front of the shrine's grounds. It enshrines the more than 50,000 war dead from within its jurisdiction. The impressive shiraki nagare-style shrine building and shrine office were originally built on the former site of Kwansei Gakuin University in Kobe's Nada District. The shrine was designated as one of several Gokoku Shrines (a shrine for the country's war dead) by the prewar Home Minister. However, the original shrine was lost during the war. The current shrine building is recreation built in 1959. Every month on the fourth Sunday, the shrine hosts the Bazaar in Rokko event. On the last Friday and Saturday of each July it hosts the Mitama Festival, which bustles with many visitors.

平日の11:50に参拝 1時まで昼休憩のため御朱印は対応しない旨のさげふだがインターホンにかかっていた当然、声をかけても無反応 12時過ぎなら当然昼休憩であるが、これはいかがなものかこの程度の神社だと思って、むしろ御朱印はもらえなくてよかった
The Kosetsu Museum of Art

3.5

25 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Kobe-shi Higashinada-ku Mikagegunge 2-12-1

"This mansion art museum is one of the most exemplary art museums in Mikage. It houses a collection of ancient oriental art most notably including 19 Important Cultural Properties and 23 Important Works of Art collected by Ryohei Murayama, the founder of the Asahi Shimbun. The name ""Kosetsu"" comes from the pseudonym of Murayama, who was an expert in the art of the tea ceremony. The museum covers a wide range of genres including Buddhist art, calligraphy, and early modern period painting. It also holds themed Collection Exhibits in the spring and fall. The museum's Baienkai, events that combine a tea ceremony with a lecture about the theme of the current exhibit, are a familiar venue for deepening one's understanding of the museum's collection."

鈴木松年展に行きました。珍しい画家の特集展示を企画する美術館ですね。三宮から近いし、駅からも徒歩（ほぼフラットな道）で行けるので助かります。観覧料と展示数が釣り合わないように感じました。トイレが館内ではなく、庭の一角にあり空調も無いようなので、真夏や真冬には辛そう・・・。あ！お隣には近年話題の弓弦羽神社があります！！
Former Hunter House

4.0

17 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyogo Kobe-shi Nada-ku Aotanicho 1-1-4 Oji Dobutsuen Uchi

This western-style building decorated with cresting and scrollwork building is one of the largest surviving Kobe Ijinkan (foreigner residences). It is situated in a corner of the Kobe Oji Zoo, which exhibits 130 species of animal including giant pandas and koalas. The building, which features a stone foundation and combed mortar exterior walls, was relocated from its original location in Kitano-cho in 1963. Although the exact year of its construction is unknown, it is said that a German named A. Greppi commissioned an English engineer with its construction in 1889. The home, which still conveys how extravagant it must have appeared at the time, can be toured free of charge (although there is a charge for admission to the zoo).

王子動物園の中、奥まったところにあります。廊下がきぃきぃ言いますが、安全です。とても趣深い住宅でした。
Taiko-no-yu Museum

3.5

14 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyogo Kobe-shi Kita-ku Arimacho 1642

This archaeological museum is located about eight minutes southwest of Arima Onsen Station. The museum exhibits items dating to the Azuchi-Momoyama period that were excavated from the archeological site discovered under the kitchen of Gokurakuji Temple, which was destroyed by the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. This includes artifacts such as roof tiles and tea utensils as well as the ruins of bathtubs and a garden believed to have been part of the Yunoyama Goten villa built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Although the existence of the Yunoyama Goten had long been known to tradition, no blueprints or other historical documents supporting its existence are known to exist. The facility, which opened in 1999, exhibits the ruins of the villa's steam baths and stone bathtubs just as they were discovered.

秀吉の造らせた金泉を引いた温泉の岩風呂の石垣の枠の一部が見られる。岩に金泉の成分が残留したような赤い色が見えます。実物なので感動した。
Ishoan

4.5

9 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyogo Kobe-shi Higashinada-ku Sumiyoshihigashimachi 1-6-50

"This residence was where the literary master Junichiro Tanizaki lived for seven years from 1936-1943. The attached Tanizaki Library features a collection of books, reference literature, and other items. The home, where he Tanizaki lived with his wife Matsuko and her younger sisters, inspired the setting of his masterpiece ""The Makioka Sisters"" (Sasameyuki). The world of the novel, which realistically depicted life in the home, will vividly come to life as you set foot inside. The attached library, which was built on the 20th anniversary of the home's relocation, exhibits works written in Tanizaki's own hand."

細雪を読み始めた頃にこちらに訪問したので、後も読み進める間、具体的に風景をイメージ出来て感慨深いものがありました。一階には関係書籍も揃っていたり、当時の写真なども飾っています。
NADAHAMA SCIENCE SQUARE

5.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Nada-ku Nadahamahigashichou 2

This science hall and exchange facility is about a 12-minute walk south of Hanshin Electric Railway's Oishi Station. Its exhibits are based on the themes of Iron-making, Power Generation, Energy, and the Environment, and include displays on the iron-making process and power generation systems that will help you understand their complexities. Facilities include a power generation calculator and an energy tower where you can learn about how power works through moving a ball. They also have virtual factory tours, guided experimentation with static electricity, and fun activities like making nature crafts with nuts.

神戸製鋼が経営している科学館です。製鉄について、発電についてなど体験しながら学ぶことができます。また、アスレチックのようなものもあり長時間いても飽きません。無料のロッカーがあるので身軽に遊べることもGOODです！
Sera Art Gallery

3.5

4 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Mikage 2-5-21

An art gallery located a three-minute walk from Hankyu Railway Mikage Station. Opened in 1992 using the personal assets of painter Tomie Sera, the content of the museum's standing exhibition is changed four times a year; the museum also holds special exhibitions. In addition to being an art gallery, water painting, foreign language, and other classes are also periodically held here as well as concerts. Museum tickets can be reserved using the museum's official website. In January, February, and August, the gallery is only open on Thursdays and Fridays. The gallery is not open to the general public when concerts are being held.

外観は独特で美術館らしいですが、玄関から室内は邸宅という感じの美術館で、世良さんの家を美術館にしたようです。御影駅から歩いて行ける距離という立地も良かったです。
Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Nada-ku Haradadori 3-8-30

An art museum housing works by Hyogo Prefecture born graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo. Operating out of the remodeled west wing of the Oji Branch of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, the museum opened in 2012. The museum contains some 3,000 paintings, prints, posters, and book designs, with the pieces on display being changed regularly. The second and third floors serve as exhibition spaces, while the first-floor open studio is used to host a variety of events.
ROKKO Morinone Forest Sound Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Kobe-shi Nada-ku Rokkosancho Kita Rokko 4512-145

"A museum located close to the ""Orugoru Museum-mae"" Rokko Sanjo Bus stop. Kobe Orgel, the museum's own music box brand, was selected for inclusion in the exclusive Kobe Selection 7 list of products in 2013. Kobe Orgel's master craftspeople create one of a kind, made to order music boxes. The company also offers a fun music box assembly activity. Held daily at set times, private individuals can participate without needing to make an advance reservation. The museum also has a cafe and a museum shop that can add your name or other inscription to a music box."

Hyogo Mt. Rokko / Arima

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Hyogo prefecture stretches from the north coast to the south coast on the western end of the popular Kansai region, encompassing verdant mountains, urban beaches, and fantastic historical sights. The prefecture’s main attractions lie along the south coast at Kobe, the prefectural capital, a pretty harbor city best known for its production of the renowned Kobe beef, and Himeji, the home of Himeji Castle, one of the country’s most beautifully preserved feudal castles, perched magically atop a hill.