Showing posts with label Kitano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kitano. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2014

2014 May: Japan: Kobe: Kitano-Cho

Kitano-cho (北野町, Kitanochō) is a city district at the foot of the Rokko mountain range where many foreign merchants and diplomats settled after the Port of Kobe was opened to foreign trade in the second half of the 19th century. More than a dozen of the former mansions, known as Ijinkan, remain in the area and are open to the public as museums. [Read]


Arriving at Sannomiya Station, from Tourist Information Center it will take 15 minutes walk going to Kitano. I was able to pass by the old English architecture of Starbucks.


In Kitano-cho Plaza, glad to catch a simple street circus entertainment.

Artists near the Weather Clock house.