Kobe
Sign in to saveKobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in the Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about west of Osaka and southwest of Kyoto.
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Kobe is the capital city of Hyogo Prefecture in Japan and the country's seventh-largest city, with a population of around 1.5 million people. It is an important port city—the third-largest in Japan—located in the Kansai region on Osaka Bay, and forms part of a major metropolitan area that includes Osaka and Kyoto.
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28 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins
- Nara and Heian periods
- Kamakura period
- Edo period
- Meiji period
- Modern era
- Geography
- Wards
- Cityscape
- Climate
- Demographics
- Economy
- Major companies and institutes
- Transportation
- Air
- Rail
- Ropeway
- Road
- Maritime
- Education
- Culture
- Sports
- International relations
- Gallery
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Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in the Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about west of Osaka and southwest of Kyoto.
The earliest written records regarding the region come from the , which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 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 exist in its current form until its founding in 1889. Its name comes from . Kobe became one of Japan's designated cities in 1956.