A report on Kobe

A map showing the Kobe Metropolitan Employment Area

Kobe is the busiest port in the Kansai region.

The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge extends from Kobe to Awaji Island.

Weathercock House, one of the many foreign residences of the Kitano area of Kobe

Taisan-ji. The main hall is a National Treasure of Japan (built in 716).

Marker indicating the former location of Fukuhara-kyō

Kusunoki Masashige (Battle of Minatogawa)

Kobe foreign settlement Kaigan-dōri Avenue around 1885

Shinkaichi theatre street in Kobe (Taisho era)

Hyōgo Port in the 19th century<ref>From the NYPL Digital Library</ref>

Former Hyogo prefectural office, built in 1902

This nishiki-e (colored woodcut) shows a foreign steamboat entering Hyōgo Port shortly after its opening to the West in the late 19th century.

Damage in Sannomiya during the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995

Skylines of Kobe from Kobe Bridge (2015)

View of Sannomiya from Shin-Kobe Station (2009)

Kobe central business district at night (2016)

Kawasaki Heavy Industries headquarters on Harborland

Kawasaki Shipbuilding Co. headquarters on Kobe Harbor

Procter & Gamble Asia headquarters on Rokko Island

Nestlé Japan Ltd. headquarters on Sannomiya

UCC Ueshima Coffee Co. headquarters on Port Island

An'yō-in. Its karesansui is one of Japan's Places of Scenic Beauty.

Kobe Oji Zoo as home of the giant and red pandas

Foreigners' cemetery on the slopes of Futatabiyama

alt=|Sunset from Mt.Suwa observation deck

Japan's seventh-largest city after Kawasaki, the third-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Hyōgo Prefecture

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Prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.

Himeji Castle in Himeji, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Map of Hyogo Prefecture with former provincial boundaries and current prefectural offices.
1.Kobe city (divided between Harima and Settsu)
2.Settsu (Hanshin South office)
3.Settsu (Hanshin North office)
4.Harima East office
5.Harima North office
6.Harima Central office
7.Harima West office
9.Tanba office
8.Tajima office
10.Awaji office Areas beyond Harima West belonged to Mimasaka (north) and Bizen (south)

Hyōnosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park (Mt. Hyonosen view from Yabu)

Hyōnosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park (Torokawataira in Kami)

Sanin Kaigan National Park (Takeno Beach in Toyooka)

Sanin Kaigan National Park (Tajima-mihonoura of Sanin Coast in Shinonsen)

Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe.

Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka.

Kōbe is the capital and largest city of Hyōgo Prefecture, and the seventh-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Himeji, Nishinomiya, and Amagasaki.

Kyoto

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Capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan.

Kyoto seen from Mount Atago in the northwest corner of the city

Light blue represents the Kyoto metropolitan area defined by Kyōto Toshiken Jichitai Network and blue represents Kyoto MEA.

Kansai Airport express Haruka at Kyōto Station

An express service bound for Kokusaikaikan Station of the Karasuma Line is running on Kintetsu Kyoto Line

Platform screen doors at Higashiyama Station of the Tōzai Line

Kyoto and Karasuma Street seen from Kyoto Tower

Expressway map around Kyoto City. Roads and junctions under planning are shown by dotted lines.

A monk by the Katsura River in Arashiyama

Sanga Stadium by Kyocera, home of Kyoto Sanga FC.

18th-century map with the Japanese capital "Meaco"

Daidairi (palace in the center) and the cityscape of Heian-kyō

Sanjō Ōhashi (The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō)

Perspective Pictures of Places in Japan: Sanjūsangen-dō in Kyoto

View of Kyoto from beside the Hondō of Kiyomizudera. – 1879<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://coololdphotos.com/beautiful-kiyomizu-dera-temple-in-kyoto-japan-c-1879/ |title=Beautiful Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto, Japan c. 1879 |last=Tom |date=2015-08-25 |website=Cool Old Photos |language=en-US |access-date=2019-03-03 |archive-date=2019-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043552/https://coololdphotos.com/beautiful-kiyomizu-dera-temple-in-kyoto-japan-c-1879/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Takebishi Stadium Kyoto (Kyoto Nishikyogoku Athletic Park)

Wakasa Stadium Kyoto (Kyoto Nishikyogoku Athletic Park)

Hannaryz Arena (Kyoto Municipal Gymnasium)

View of Kyoto from beside the Hondō of Kiyomizudera. – 1870s<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://sova.si.edu/details/FSA.A1999.35#ref124 |website=Smithsonian |title=FSA A1999.35 092: Kyoto: View from Kiyomizudera |author=Lyman, Benjamin Smith |date=2020-08-03|language=en-US |access-date=2022-07-16 |archive-date=2021-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626222834/https://sova.si.edu/details/FSA.A1999.35 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe.

Osaka

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Designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan.

Osaka Exchange in the Kitahama district of Osaka

Greater Osaka (without Kyoto) Metropolitan Employment Area.

Keihanshin with Osaka (red), Kobe (green), and Kyoto (blue).

A chef prepares for the evening rush in Umeda

The Glico Man among numerous signboards at Dōtonbori

The National Museum of Art, a subterranean museum for Japanese and international arts

The Osaka Dome, home to the Orix Buffaloes and Hanshin Tigers

Tsūtenkaku, a symbol of Osaka's postwar reconstruction

Ancient shells found in the Morinomiya kaizuka (Jomon period)

Daisen Kofun, the largest Kofun in Sakai, Osaka, 5th century

The Sumiyoshi-matsuri in the 16th century

Japanese painting of the Siege of Osaka (1615)

Dōjima Rice Exchange ukiyo-e by Yoshimitsu Sasaki

A model of the Kawaguchi foreign settlement (1868-1899)

The Expo '70 was the first world's fair held in Japan and Asia

Abeno Harukas, tallest building in Japan

Central Osaka looking north from the Abeno Harukas observation deck (2014)

Nakanoshima, a boundary of Kita (right) and Semba (left)

Osaka was opened to foreign trade by the government of the Bakufu at the same time as Hyogo Town (modern Kobe) on January 1, 1868, just before the advent of the Boshin War and the Meiji Restoration.

The damaged Kobe Route of the Hanshin Expressway

The Great Hanshin earthquake (阪神・淡路大震災), or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995 at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin.

Red lines marked the highest Level 7 on the intensity scale. Area shaded purple is Kobe.

1.17 memorial in Kobe in January 2005, ten years later

Local memorial in Kobe. "We won't forget that time"

The focus of the earthquake was located 17 km beneath its epicenter, on the northern end of Awaji Island, 20 km away from the center of the city of Kobe.

Keihanshin

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Keihanshin MMA with core cities in dark blue: Osaka, Sakai, Kyoto, Kobe

Keihanshin map with Osaka, Kobe, and Kyoto Urban Employment Areas as of 2015.

A map of Kyoto metropolitan area as of 2015

A map of Kobe metropolitan employment area as of 2015

A map of Himeji metropolitan employment area as of 2010

A map of Wakayama metropolitan employment area as of 2010

JR Central Tōkaidō Shinkansen arriving at Kyoto Station

Keihanshin (京阪神) is a metropolitan region in the Kansai region of Japan encompassing the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture and Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture.

Yokohama

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Second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan.

Cherry blossoms on the Kisha-michi Promenade

Yokohama Triennale at Yamashita Pier venue

A route map in Yokohama and Tokyo (JR East)

Landing of Commodore Perry and men to meet the Imperial commissioners at Yokohama, 14 July 1853

Foreign ships in Yokohama harbor in 1861

A foreign trading house in Yokohama in 1861

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse was built in 1913.

Crown Prince Hirohito (later Emperor) visited Yokohama immediately after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

View of Yokohama after the bombing in 1945

In 1951, during the Korean War, a troopship, the USS General George M. Randall (AP-115), departs Yokohama, repatriating war dead to the U.S.

Yokohama Landmark Tower, Japan's second-tallest building, was built in 1993.

The Minato Mirai 21 project, also known as the "Philadelphia and Boston of the Orient," started in 1983.

View from the Yokohama Bay Bridge (2007)

Harbor View Park towards the Yokohama Bay Bridge

Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the West following the 1859 end of the policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853.

Rokkō Island

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Man-made island in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan.

Kobe is a long and narrow city wedged between the coast to the south and the Rokkō Mountains to the north.

Kansai International Airport

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3rd floor boarding lobby, within the longest airport terminal in the world

Satellite photo of Kansai Airport (lower-right island) in Osaka Bay. Kobe Airport is being built on the unfinished island near the middle of the photo. Central Osaka is in the upper-right corner, along with Osaka International.

Kansai International Airport with the terminal building in the background

4th floor ticketing hall, illustrating the terminal's airfoil roof

Second phase of Kansai International Airport under construction

Kensetsu-to, the headquarters of Peach Aviation and the Kansai International Airport Land Development Co., Ltd.

Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港) commonly known as 関空 (Kankū) is the primary international airport in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe.

Kansai region

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The Kansai region (関西地方) or the Kinki region (近畿地方), lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū.

The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, with a centre span of 1,991 m

$Daisen Kofun, the largest burial mound in the world<ref>Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213623/http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jp/m08_01_09.htm |date=2016-03-03 }} - "History", retrieved March 15, 2007</ref>$