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Religious Site Attractions In Kobe

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Kobe is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture. It is located on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay and about 30 km west of Osaka. With a population around 1.5 million, the city is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto.The earliest written records regarding the region come from the Nihon Shoki, which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 201. For most of its history, the area was never a single political entity, even during the Tokugawa period, when the port was controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate. Kobe d...
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Religious Site Attractions In Kobe

  • 2. Ikuta Shrine Kobe
    Ikuta Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the Chūō Ward of Kobe, Japan, and is possibly among the oldest shrines in the country.
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  • 3. Minatogawa Shrine Kobe
    Minatogawa Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan, roughly on the site of the Battle of Minatogawa. The enshrined kami is the spirit of Masashige Kusunoki, a military commander. It is one of the Fifteen Shrines of the Kenmu Restoration.
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  • 5. Kobe Muslim Mosque Kobe
    Kobe Mosque , also known as Kobe Muslim Mosque , was founded in October, 1935 in Kobe and is Japan's first mosque. Its construction was funded by donations collected by the Islamic Committee of Kobe from 1928 until its opening in 1935. The mosque was confiscated by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943. However, it continues to function as mosque today. It is located in the Kitano-cho foreign district of Kobe. Owing to its basement and structure, the mosque survived the air raids that laid waste to most of Kobe's urban districts in 1945 and was able to endure through the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. The mosque is located in one of Kobe's best-known tourist areas, which features many old western style buildings. The mosque was built in traditional Indian style by the Czech architect Jan J...
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  • 6. Sumadera Kobe
    Sumadera Station is a train station in Suma-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
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  • 8. Sannomiya Shrine Kobe
    Kobe-Sannomiya Station , or simply Sannomiya Station , is located in the heart of Kobe, Japan. This station is the main railway terminal of Kobe.
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  • 9. Kobe Customs Kobe
    The Kobe Incident of February 4, 1868, also known in Japanese as the Bizen Incident , and in English as Bizen Affray, later the Bizen Affair, was spun into a scandal in Franco-Japanese relations which represented the first major international affairs challenge for the fledgling Meiji government of Japan, and the extrajurisdictional international zone, or Foreign Settlement at Hiogo, at the time occupied by a community of foreign merchant-houses, with some naval presence of arms from the countries of their incorporation, including the US Marines, of whom more than fifty landed in the panic, a mere 21 days after the highest-ranking American, Rear Admiral Henry H. Bell, was killed.
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  • 13. Nagata Shrine Kobe
    Nagata Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Nagata-ku, Kobe, Japan. At Nagata, Kotoshironushi-no-Okami is enshrined.The shrine is associated with Amaterasu, who is said to have told Empress Jingū that a shrine was wanted at Nagata.
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  • 14. Gokuraku-ji Temple Kobe
    Gokuraku-ji or Gokurakuji can refer to a number of things:
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