Nishinomiya Sta. Seidou Elementary School 【Mikage Station】 【Ashiya Station】 Ashiya Sta. 【Nishinomiya 【Amagasaki Station】 21 【Daikai Station】Nofuku Temple (Hyogo Daibutsu) 17 11 Ashiya 6 1 Visiting Literary Landmarks Mt. Rokko Tanizaki Junichiro National Route 43 Station】 Nishinomiya Amagasaki Chuo Shopping Arcade & Nofuku Temple is depicted in The Tale of the Heike※, a literary classic. City Hall Shrine Tel:078-894-2210 Ashiya River It is also well known as a temple where Taira no Kiyomori shaved Memorial Museum of Nishinomiya Sanwa Hondori Shopping Arcade along the Hanshin Railway Line National Route 43 There are about 600 stores lining this extensive network of his head and entered the priesthood. The temple houses Hyogo Rokko Cable Car Literature, Ashiya Ashiya City Marina Library Opened in 1945, the marina Hamawaki old classic shopping arcades covering the area stretching Daibutsu, one of Japan's three traditional Great Buddhas in Japan. Tel:078-861-5288 Tel:0797-23-5852 Ashiya Park Junior High Hamawaki The night view of Kobe is one Opened in 1988, the has long been known as a School Elementary School from Amagasaki Station to Deyashiki Station, with a Tanizaki combined length of 2 km. It is said that a shopping arcade in 【Sumaura-Koen Station】Sumaura Park Mizuki of the three greatest night museum houses and Ashiya City Junichiro center of marine sports in 26 Museum of Art an animated cartoon version of The Melancholy of Haruhi Elementary Daikai Sta. views in Japan, along with exhibits various valuable Memorial the Kansai region. It is said The park is famous as a place where the Battle of School and History Museum of Nishinomiya Kofu Yogai Suzumiya was modeled after these arcades, which have those of Hakodate and items related to that a yacht harbor depicted Kindergarten Ichi-no-Tani, one of the fiercest battles of the Genpei War, Literature, High School Nagasaki. Mt. Rokko, which is Junichiro Tanizaki, Ashiya in a passage in the long prospered as a center of Amagasaki for such a long time. was fought. It has historic spots such as Atsumori-zuka, a one of the best viewing spots including his favorite desk, ink stone, ink brushes, art objects novel 1Q84 by Haruki stone monument which is said to have been built as a Nofuku Hyogo Sta. Temple in the Kansai region, offers a panoramic night view of Kobe, and handwritten manuscripts. Murakami is Nishinomiya Hakushika-kan 【Amagasaki Station】 memorial to Taira no Atsumori. The park, which is famous which is called the "ten million dollar night view." Marina. 2 as a cherry blossom viewing spot, has been selected as one Teramachi 【Uozaki Station】 Located to the south west of of 50 best flower viewing spots in Kobe. National Route 2 Kobe City Bus No. 16 connects Hanshin Mikage Station to Susano 12 Omaehama Amagasaki Station, the Teramachi Junior High Rokko Cable Shita Station. Former residence of Park Meishin School 【Koroen Station】 district has a concentration of Elementary School Junichiro Tanizaki 【Maiko-Koen Station】 Kiyomori-zuka 7 Ashihara Bridge Nishinomiya-ohashi Buddhist temples ̶ 11 temples in 27 Pagoda 【Sannomiya Station】 "Ishoan" Nishinomiya Bridge Sun Yat-sen 18 Shukugawa River is a 7-km Marina total now. Although Teramachi is Memorial Hall 【Daikai Station】 Shinkawa Canal Kitano “Ijinkan” Tel:078-842-0730 clear river that runs in a located in the center of the city, it is a 22 special place where visitors can feel as Tel:078-783-7172 Kiyomori-zuka Tomb & Biwa-zuka Pagoda Foreign Residence Area Located along the Sumiyoshi north-south direction. Ashihara Bridge is a small bridge that River, the former residence spans the river near its mouth. The bridge is famous as the if they were back in the Edo period. The facility is Japan's only Kiyomori-zuka Tomb is said to have been built as a memorial to Kitano is an area that has of Junichiro Tanizaki is famous for being the setting for his one that appears in Haruki Murakami's essay Afternoon in museum built to Taira no Kiyomori by Hojo Sadatoki when he was a regent of numerous foreign residences. commemorate Sun Yat-sen, a Many of those residences have masterpiece novel The Makioka Sisters. the Islets of Langerhans. Amagasaki Chuo Shopping Arcade Sumiyoshi River the Kamakura shogunate. Located next to the tomb is Biwa-zuka River Shoge great Chinese revolutionist, statesman and philosopher. The Pagoda. It came to be called as such, because the monument been designated National facility, also known as Ijokaku, is a three-storied octagonal Important Cultural Properties. 【Uozaki Station】 Nada Senior Sanwa Hondori was believed to be connected with Taira no Tsunemasa, who 13 Sumiyoshi High School Shopping Arcade building originally built in 1915 as a villa by Wu Jintang, a biwa Visitors can feel as if they were back in the Meiji and Taisho Kikumasamune Sake Elementary Chuo was a good player of the , a pear-shaped lute. School Chinese merchant living in Kobe. Ijokaku was opened to the periods when they visit traditional Western-style buildings in Koroen Sta. Park Memorial Museum Amagasaki Sta. the area. public as Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in 1984 and was 【Tsukimiyama Station】 Tel:078-854-1029 Yusei School National Route 43 designated an important cultural property of Hyogo for children 23 Suma Rikyu Park Tel:078-732-6688 The museum exhibits 566 with Special Ishoan Teramachi District Prefecture in 1993. Needs Suma Rikyu Park is a huge urban park consisting of a main park items related to sake KOS Koroen area including a Western-style garden and a botanical garden K AN brewing that have been RO Uozaki Elementary Rokko-Shidare School 【Maiko-Koen Station】Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge area. The Park has a hill named Tsukimidai, also well known as 17 designated important Elementary Nishinomiya 28 Observatory School Amagasaki Tsukimi no Yama, or Moon Viewing Hill, where Ariwara no tangible folk-cultural City Museum City Library Opened to service on April 5, Yukihira missed Kyoto and his life there and healed his heart by properties by the 1998, Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge is viewing the moon. He was one of the real-life figures who Hall of Halls Rokko Japanese government, Nishinomiya Kofu Uozaki Sta. Senior High School the world's longest inspired Murasaki Shikibu when she created the hero Hikaru allowing visitors to National Route 43 suspension bridge with a total National Route 43 Koyo Gakuin Genji for The Tale of Genji. Meanwhile, the botanical garden area Rokko Garden Terrace imagine how brewery Junior High School Ashihara Bridge length of 3,911 meters and a is located on the site of a mansion of the Okazaki family, which workers worked in the old central span of 1,991 meters. headed the Okazaki conglomerate, on which the conglomerate days. Visitors can also The two main supporting Nishinomiya depicted in Toyoko Yamasaki's sample sake and buy Kaisei Hospital 【Umeda Station】、 towers rise about 300 meters above sea level. The bridge novel Splender of the family is sake products available Kikumasamune 【Osaka-Namba Station】 & Surrounding Areas crosses the Akashi Strait, connecting Higashi Maiko-cho, said to have been modeled. only at the museum. Sake Memorial These two stations are respectively located in the centers of Tarumi-ku, Kobe City with Iwaya, Awaji City. The bridge is Japanese-style rooms of the former Museum north and south Osaka. The areas surrounding the stations popularly known as Pearl Bridge, as it looks like a beautiful mansion still remain in the Park. 18 string of pearls when it is litght up at night. Kitano “Ijinkan” Foreign Residence Area have various famous restaurants, shops and entertainment Minatogawa facilities. Shrine Rokko Cable Car Hotel Hanshin Nishi-Shimmachi Nishi-Motomachi Ikuta Shrine Kosoku-Nagata Centerpool-Mae Sumaura-Koen Sanyo-Tarumi 25 24 23 8 Sanyo-Himeji Sanyo-Akashi Kasuganomichi 14 Sanyo-Suma 9 Nishinomiya 1 Maiko-Koen Tsukimiyama Kosoku-Kobe Amagasaki- Motomachi 15 Ishiyagawa Mukogawa Amagasaki Fukushima Sumadera Sumiyoshi Kusugawa Yodogawa Nishinada Deyashiki Shinkaichi Sannomiya Shinzaike 12 Daimotsu Himejima Nishidai 10 Chibune Itayado Koshien Mikage Koroen Uozaki Uchide Umeda Daikai Ashiya Iwaya Fukae Imazu Naruo Kuise Oishi Noda Ogi Hanshin HERBIS OSAKA, HERBIS ENT, Department Store The Ritz-Carlton Osaka Rihga Royal 26 Hyogo Daibutsu 5 4 Dekijima Hotel 29 (Great Buddha) BB Plaza 13 Higashi-Naruo Sumitomo Museum of Art 2 Hospital Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge 20 Fuku Suzaki Dempo Sannomiya Center Gai Kyocera Dome Osaka Shinsaibashi Hanshin Koshien Shopping District 11 Nishinomiya Nankinmachi Stadium Chidoribashi 28 Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Kiku-Masamune Shrine Osaka Municipal 21 (Chinatown) Mukogawadanchi-Mae Central Wholesale Sake Museum Nishikujo Kujo Dome-Mae Sakuragawa Osaka-Namba Kintetsu- 27 Kobe Port Tower Ashihara Bridge Nara Market Shin Kiyomori-zuka - 19 Hyogo Prefectural 7 Ajigawa River Naniwasuji Ave Pagoda & Biwa-zuka 6 Nishinomiya Marina Monument Former Foreign Museum of Art 3 Settlement of Kobe Chuo-odori St. 22 【Koroen Station】 Nissay 16 8 Nansoji Hospital Kujokita Temple dori St. Catholic Shukugawa Church - Elementary . The church was established in School Kujo Sta. Sanyo Railway Matsushima 1921 as the first Catholic church MinatoPark Nishi-Shimmachi Sta. National Route 2 【Sumadera Station】 in the so-called Hanshinkan area 24 Sumadera Temple (the area between Osaka and 【Motomachi Station】 Kobe [both exclusive]). The Built in 886, the temple is 19 church is where novelist Shusaku notable for its historical The Former Foreign Settlement of Kobe & 3 【Kujo Station】Ajigawa River 【Ishiyagawa Station】Ishiyagawa Park Endo was baptized and is said to Taikan Bridge connection to the Genpei War ̶ Nankinmachi (Chinatown) 14 be the origin of his literary Ajigawa River is one of the tributaries of the lower reach of a conflict between the Taira and The Former Foreign Settlement of Kobe is a district where The park stretches from north to south along Ishiyagawa creations.