Kobe — Sights
A harbour town squeezed between the mountains and the sea.
- Meriken Park & Kobe Port Tower — The red hourglass tower and the harbourside park that define Kobe
- Harborland & umie MOSAIC — Waterfront mall decks facing Port Tower across the water
- Kitano Ijinkan — A hillside of Meiji-era Western merchants' houses
- Nunobiki Herb Gardens & Ropeway — Ride the ropeway up, walk down through herb gardens
- Mt Rokko & Rokko Garden Terrace — A mountaintop terrace looking from the Akashi Strait to Kansai Airport
- Mt Maya Kikuseidai — Kobe's famous "ten-million-dollar" night view
- Nankinmachi (Kobe Chinatown) — A 270 m Chinatown best eaten on foot, pork bun in hand
- Ikuta Shrine — The red shrine downtown that gave Kobe its name
- Arima Onsen — One of Japan's oldest spa towns, famous for its rust-brown "gold" water
- Himeji Castle — The white "heron" keep, Japan's best-known original castle
- Akashi Kaikyo Bridge & Maiko Marine Promenade — A glass-floored walkway 47 m above the sea inside a giant suspension bridge
- Kobe Animal Kingdom — A mostly indoor zoo where shoebills and capybaras are inches away
- Nada Sake Breweries (Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum) — Brewery museums and tastings in Japan's biggest sake district
- Sorakuen Garden — A pond garden and a Western mansion side by side downtown
- Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution — The 1995 Kobe earthquake, told through film and real wreckage
- Kitano Tenman Shrine — Hilltop shrine above the Ijinkan, port below
- Kobe City Museum — Port-city history in a 1935 bank building
- Kobe Anpanman Children's Museum & Mall — The first stop at Harborland if kids are along
- Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery Museum — Free look at old brewing tools in sake country
- Suma Rikyu Park — Hilltop Western garden with roses and fountains
- Kobe Suma Sea World (former Suma Aqualife Park) — Seaside aquarium reopened in 2024, with an orca show
- Rokko Orgel Museum (ROKKO Forest Sound Museum) — Music-box hall and a small chapel on top of Rokko
- Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art — Tadao Ando museum with a giant frog on the plaza
- Kobe Fashion Museum — Rokko Island museum of dress history and collections