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Sta. Seidou Elementary School 【】 【Ashiya Station】 Ashiya Sta. 【Nishinomiya 【 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 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 's three traditional Great Buddhas in Japan. Tel:078-861-5288 Tel:0797-23-5852 Ashiya Park Junior High Hamawaki The night view of 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 animated cartoon version of The Melancholy of Haruhi Elementary Daikai Sta. views in Japan, along with exhibits various valuable Memorial the . 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 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 . 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 Nishinomiya-ohashi Buddhist temples ̶ 11 temples in 27 Pagoda 【 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 & -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 . 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 '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 Islets of Langerhans. Amagasaki Chuo Shopping Arcade

Sumiyoshi River the 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 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 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 【 Station】、 towers rise about 300 meters above sea level. The bridge novel Splender of the family is sake products available Kikumasamune 【- 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- Sanyo-Akashi Kasuganomichi 14 Sanyo-Suma 9 Nishinomiya 1 Maiko-Koen Tsukimiyama Kosoku-Kobe Amagasaki- Motomachi 15 Ishiyagawa Mukogawa Amagasaki Sumadera Sumiyoshi Kusugawa Yodogawa Nishinada Deyashiki Sannomiya Shinzaike 12 Daimotsu Himejima Nishidai 10 Chibune Itayado Koshien Mikage Koroen Uozaki Uchide Umeda Daikai Ashiya Iwaya Fukae Imazu Naruo Kuise Oishi Noda

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Rihga Royal 26 Hyogo Daibutsu 5 4 Dekijima Hotel 29 () BB Plaza 13 Higashi-Naruo Sumitomo Museum of Art 2 Hospital Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge 20 Fuku Suzaki Dempo Sannomiya Center Gai Dome Osaka Hanshin Koshien Shopping District 11 Nishinomiya Nankinmachi 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 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. This beautiful Kyu-Yodo River (former Yodo River) that runs through Osaka Kinugawa Minamoto clans during the late Western foreigners were allowed to live during the late Junior Sanyo Expwy River, known as a raised bed river. Along the river stands a neo-gothic style church National Route 2 City from northeast to southwest. Ajigawa River is well High School Heian period. In the grounds of 19th century. The neighboring Nankinmachi is well known Grave of the Fireflies is a symbol of the Uchide Branch of Muddy River stone monument to , an animation movie Ashiya City Library known as a setting in , a novel by Teru the temple is a monument of a as one of the three biggest based on the novel with the same title. Shukugawa area. Miyamoto from Osaka. A monument bearing a passage from life-size reproduction Chinatowns in Japan, along the novel is located near the river. Akashi River of a scene of the with those in and Uchide Park one-on-one battle Sumadera Temple Nagasaki. 【Uchide Station】 Ashiya Uchide Kozuchi 【Koshien Station】 Kaikoin between Taira no HALF 9 Post Office 4 Temple TIME Uchide Branch of Hanshin Tel:0798-47-1041 Atsumori and Kobe City Hall Uchide sta. Kumagai no Naozane. Ashiya City Library Ashiya Kobato The Museum of Hanshin Koshien Stadium Nishisuma 【Sannomiya The treasure hall of Former Foreign 15 Nursery School Tel:0798-49-4509 【Nishi-Shimmachi Station】Kaikoin Temple Kindergarten Motomachi Sta. Settlement Station】 Tel:0797-38-7220 29 the temple houses District As the mecca of high school M-int Kobe The library building, which used items related to the Kobe Higashi Half Time , the stadium has Kaikoin Temple, which was revived by Taira no Kiyomori, is to belong to Itsumi Bank in the two clans, materials Nankinmachi Yuenchi Park Sannomiya provided a setting for many the oldest Buddhist temple in Akashi City. The temple is Tel:078-241-8957 late Meiji period, was relocated to related to the (Chinatown) National Route 2 OPA Dokaben regarded as being located on the site of Akashi no Nyudo's Established in 1978, Half the current site from Osaka in manga such as and residence called "Hamabe no Yakata (beach residence)." Genpei War, Japan's Time is an antique-style Kobe Kotsu . It is said that a stadium

Sumadera Sta. Sumadera Sanyo Center Building 1930. The building is referred to oldest ichigenkin, Railway depicted in The Wind-Up Bird Akashi no Nyudo was a fictitious person in the novel The Tale bar that was used as J's Sannomiya Sta. as "Ashiya City Library (at that one-stringed Port Tower Chronicle, a novel by Haruki Murakami, is Hanshin Koshien of Genji, who invited the hero Hikaru Genji to move to Akashi Bar in the movie Hear the time)" in Smerdyakov versus a Japanese harp, and Sogo from Suma. In the grounds of the temple are various stone Chidori Kindergarten Wind Sing. Group of Subordinates of Oda Stadium. other various items. monuments, including a stone monument to Akashi no 【Nishidai Station】 Nobunaga, a collection of essays 20 【Nishinomiya Station】 Nyudo, a stone monument to the pine tree on Akashi no Ura Genkoji Temple Tetsujin 28-go by Haruki Murakami. 5 beach (a monument associated with Hikaru Genji) and a stone Marist Brothers Monument monument built as a memorial to Taira no Kiyomori, which 【Sumadera International 【Motomachi Station】 25 School The monument is an 18-meter 16 Nishinomiya Shrine is the head shrine has been designated a cultural property of Akashi City. Station】 actual-size replica of a popular Kobe Port Tower 【Uchide Station】 of all shrines, or shrines Genkoji Temple robot depicted in the manga Meriken Park 10 Uchide Park dedicated to Ebisu, the god of good ※ The Tale of the Heike is a war epic based on historical It has been said from ancient times that Hikaru Genji, the Tetsujin 28-go in the 1950s Located in the proud Commonly called "Monkey Park," fortune. During Toka-Ebisu Festival, facts. hero of Murasaki Shikibu's novel The Tale of Genji, lived and 1960s. It was built in ○c HIKARI PRODUCTION / waterfront area of port city Uchide Park is well known as "a the shrine attracts more than one The novel 1Q84 has a scene in which a girl called Fukaeri humbly in this temple after moving to Suma from Kyoto. For memory of its writer and KOBE TETSUJIN PROJECT 2011 Kobe, Kobe Port Tower and park with a monkey" depicted in million visitors who wish to pray for business prosperity. The recites a passage from The Tale of the Heike, in response to a this reason, Genkoji Temple used to be called Genjidera illustrator Mitsuteru Yokoyama, a cartoonist from Kobe, as a Meriken Park are popular a scene from Haruki Murakami's shrine is also depicted in Henkyo Kinkyo (Remote Region, request from a man called Tengo. (Genji Temple). symbol of the reconstruction and revitalization of Kobe. tourist attractions. first novel Hear the Wind Sing. Short Distance), a travel essay by Haruki Murakami.