Recently, the New York Times started a section on their website called “Show Us Your City.” Viewers can grab a camera, make a video of them giving a tour of their hometown, submit it to the New York Times, and they post it up on their website.
We figured it would be a great way to introduce our prefecture to a wider audience. We also didn’t have a video for Sannomiya, so we said why not, and decided to give it a shot! We had a few locations to choose from, but we decided to go with Sannomiya. It’s the busiest area in Hyogo, and it’s also close to our office, in case we have to retake some footage since we’re total beginners. I think it ended up being a good call.
Check out the video, Discovering Kobe, from here!
We started from the Sannomiya and Motomachi Center Arcade. This highly popular arcade is conveniently located near the station, and is filled with many stores. These are the stores we see every day, but we thought they might be interesting to people who have never seen them. If you watch the video closely, you can see posters of Orlando Bloom and Charlize Theron advertising for a clothing store called UNIQLO. It’s one of the biggest and the fastest growing clothing retail stores in the country. Have you ever heard of them?
Next we visited one of the most popular places in Kobe , the Meriken Park
This is the famous view of Kobe
And finally, we introduced the Old Foreign Settlement, or the Kyu-kyoryuchi, because it is probably the most stylish part of Kobe Japan
An European Style Building A café in Motomachi
in Kyu-kyoryuchi
Although we wanted to show more fun and interesting places around Kobe
Shark (Hyogo Tourism Association)