~3.5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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A guided wander through a coastal quarter of jazz kissaten and hillside lanes that tourism forgot. For second-time visitors who think they know Kobe.
Shioya is what Kobe looked like before the container terminals: a fishing settlement wedged between the mountains and the sea, with a Western merchant's estate above it. It is on this list because it is the opposite of the city centre and fifteen minutes away by train.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
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Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
4 hr 30 min for bothOne item, one queue, since 1915.
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5 hr for bothThe red lattice tower is Kobe’s signature, and the waterfront under it — museums, ferris wheel, mosaic malls — fills whatever time your bigger plans leave over..
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5 hr for bothCompact, lantern-strung and made for grazing — one of Japan’s three Chinatowns, five minutes from the old foreign settlement’s banks and boutiques..
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