Swing the longest monkey bars
Sunshine Wharf Kobe · Free
Only in Kobe
29 unique things to do, within 50 km30 mi. 93 in total
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Walk into Japan's first mosque, free
Kobe Muslim Mosque · Free
Handle the tools in Japan's only museum of carpentry tools
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Ride Japan's last carlator, a conveyor belt up a mountain
Sumaura Sanjo Amusement Park
The only one in Japan
Watch Japan's oldest working planetarium projector, on the line that sets Japan's clocks
Akashi Municipal Planetarium
The only one in Japan
The only one in Japan
Walk through Japan's first modern river tunnel on an open Saturday
Minatogawa Tunnel · Free
Tour Koshien, the stadium every Japanese high-school player dreams of reaching
The Museum of Hanshin Koshien Stadium
The only one in Japan
Find Arima's pop-up doll brushes at the one shop that still makes them
Haifukiya Nishida Fudeten
Run, or watch, the dawn sprint for Lucky Man at Nishinomiya Shrine
Nishinomiya Shrine · Free · Seasonal
The only one in Japan
See a premiere at the Takarazuka Revue's home theatre
Takarazuka Grand Theater
The only one in Japan
Watch coopers build a sake cask in Japan's biggest sake district
Kiku-Masamune Tarusake Meister Factory · Free
Climb to the top of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge's main tower
Bridge Exhibition Center · Seasonal
Climb a kofun restored to look as it did when it was built
Goshikizuka Tumulus · Free
The only one in Japan
Walk the dormitory rooms of the only emigrant hostel left in Japan
Kobe Center for Overseas Migration and Cultural Interaction · Free
Go inside a working shipyard to the only intact shogunate battery of its kind
Wadamisaki Battery · Free
The only one in Japan
Drink from the carbonated spring, then eat the rice cracker it invented
Tansan Spring Park · Free
Bathe in both of Arima's waters: the brown kinsen and the clear ginsen
Arima Onsen Kin no Yu
The only one in Japan
Stand in silence at 5:46 among 6,000 bamboo lanterns on 17 January
Higashi Yuenchi Park · Free · Seasonal
Get a guided walk through the Foreign Cemetery on one of twelve open days
Kobe Municipal Foreign Cemetery · Free · Seasonal
Watch seven torch-bearing oni dance at Nagata Shrine on Setsubun, with no beans thrown
Nagata Jinja · Free · Seasonal
Catch the daily 2 pm rakugo matinee in the old entertainment district
Kobe Shinkaichi Kirakukan
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Viewpoints over Kobe
Places to look at the city, the plains or the mountains from.
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Take in the night view from Kikuseidai on Mt Maya
Kikuseidai · Free
See the city at night from the free 24th-floor lobby at Kobe City Hall
Kobe City Hall · Free
Climb Venus Bridge to the terrace above it
Venus Bridge · Free
See the autumn maples at Zuihoji Park in Arima
Zuihoji Park · Seasonal
Landmarks in Kobe
Worth stopping for, but a few minutes rather than an afternoon. Statues, murals, markers and monuments.
8 entries
See the quay left as the 1995 earthquake broke it
Port of Kobe Earthquake Memorial Park
Stand under the 15-metre Tetsujin-28 robot in Nagata
Tetsujin 28 Monument
See the Queen of Ruins from the Maya Cable
Former Maya Kanko Hotel
Find the stones marking Japan's first Western tailor and first marathon
Higashi Yuenchi Park
See Japan's oldest surviving cast-iron lighthouse at Suma
Former Wadamisaki Lighthouse
See Yanobe Kenji's Sun Sister outside the prefectural art museum
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
See the Edo-period Hatozaki stone lighthouse in Akashi
Hatozaki Lighthouse
More experiences in Kobe
Not unique, and not pretending to be. Good things to do here that you could also do somewhere else.
52 entries
Go up the reopened Port Tower to its open-air rooftop
Kobe Port Tower
Ride the Portliner from the front window
Sannomiya Station
Sit in a 0-series bullet-train cab at Kawasaki Good Times World
Kawasaki Good Times World
Spend a morning at the earthquake museum
Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution
Eat your way down Nankinmachi
Nankinmachi
Tour the city-owned ijinkan: Weathercock House and Moegi House
Weathercock House
See inside the Hassam House during Sorakuen's chrysanthemum show
Sorakuen Garden · Seasonal
Visit Ikuta Shrine and its forest
Ikuta Shrine
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