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Find the stones marking Japan's first Western tailor and first marathon

Monuments to two of Kobe's firsts

Higashi Yuenchi Park

Photo: studio IRONY · CC BY 3.0

One stone marks the 1869 shop at Settlement Lot 16, Japan's first Western tailoring; the other the 1909 Kobe to Osaka race, in a park that was the settlement's athletic ground.

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