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thumb|300px|A Sannomiya view from Shin-Kobe Station|Shin-Kobe thumb|View of Sannomiya station at night is a district of Chūō-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Sannomiya serves as the financial, commercial, and the entertainment center of Kobe. The district takes the name from Sannomiya Shrine, a branch of Ikuta Shrine.

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thumb|300px|A Sannomiya view from Shin-Kobe Station|Shin-Kobe thumb|View of Sannomiya station at night is a district of Chūō-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Sannomiya serves as the financial, commercial, and the entertainment center of Kobe. The district takes the name from Sannomiya Shrine, a branch of Ikuta Shrine.

Before the 1920s, Sannomiya was just a small suburb of the city. The major suburbs were Motomachi and Shinkaichi which are west of Sannomiya. In 1933, the Sogo Department Store moved from Motomachi to premises in front of Sannomiya Station. The area started to develop rapidly.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sannomiya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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