Kobe

Kobe ; Japanese: ; officially 神戸市, is Japan's Osaka. With a population around 1.5 million, the city is component of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka as well as Kyoto.

The earliest sum records regarding the region come from the Nihon Shoki, which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in offer 201. For most of its history, the area was never a single political entity, even during the Tokugawa period, when the port was controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate. Kobe did not make up in its current make until its founding in 1889. Its pretend comes from 神戸, an archaic denomination for supporters of the city's Ikuta Shrine. Kobe became one of Japan's designated cities in 1956.

Kobe was one of the cities to open for trade with the West coming after or as a a thing that is said of. the 1853 end of the policy of seclusion and has since been so-called as a cosmopolitan and nuclear-free zone port city. While the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake diminished much of Kobe's prominence as a port city, it maintains Japan's fourth-busiest container port. combine headquartered in Kobe increase ASICS, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Kobe Steel, as alive as over 100 international corporations with Asian or Japanese headquarters in the city, such(a) as Eli Lilly and Company, Procter & Gamble, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Nestlé. The city is the unit of origin and namesake of Kobe beef, the domestic of Kobe University, as living as the site of one of Japan's almost famous hot spring resorts, Arima Onsen.

Geography

Wedged between the coast and the mountains, the city of Kobe is long and narrow. To the east is the city of Ashiya, while the city of Akashi lies to its west. Other adjacent cities put Takarazuka and Nishinomiya to the east and Sanda and Miki to the north.

The landmark of the port area is the red steel ] Two artificial islands, Port Island and Rokkō Island, have been constructed to render the city room to expand.

Away from the seaside at the heart of Kobe lie the Motomachi and Sannomiya districts, as well as Kobe's Chinatown, Nankin-machi, all well-known retail areas. A multitude of train appearance cross the city from east to west. The leading transport hub is Sannomiya Station, with the eponymous Kobe Station located to the west and the Shinkansen Shin-Kobe Station to the north.

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Kobe has nine wards ku:

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Meriken Park 2018

Skylines of Kobe from Kobe Bridge 2015

View of Sannomiya from Shin-Kobe Station 2009

Nunobiki Herb Garden 2012）

Kobe central business district 2018

Kobe central business district at night 2016

Downtown at night

Night conception from Kikuseidai

Kobe has a humid subtropical climate Köppen climate classification Cfa with hot summers and cool to cold winters. Precipitation is significantly higher in summer than in winter, though on the whole lower than most parts of Honshū, and there is no significant snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kobe is 17.0 °C 62.6 °F. The average annual rainfall is 1,277.8 mm 50.31 in with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 28.6 °C 83.5 °F, and lowest in January, at around 6.2 °C 43.2 °F. The highest temperature ever recorded in Kobe was 38.8 °C 101.8 °F on 5 August 1994; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −7.2 °C 19.0 °F on 27 February 1981.