Places to meet in Kobe

A hands-on science museum with a planetarium on Port Island.

A large art museum on the Kobe waterfront designed by Tadao Ando.

The main library of the Kobe municipal library system, in Chuo ward.

A sake brewery in Mikage with brewery tours, a tasting shop, a restaurant and a gallery.

A free museum on the history of sake brewing on the site of an old brewery.

A Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in central Kobe, listed as open daily from the morning.

A bakery with an upstairs cafe, housed in the former Kobe Union Church building near Kitano.

A gyoza specialist founded in 1951 near Nankinmachi, credited with originating the miso sauce for gyoza.

A Kobe beef steak restaurant on Ikuta Shinmichi run by a Kobe company that deals in meat wholesale.

A basement jazz cafe in Motomachi that plays jazz records.

The Motomachi main shop of the Kobe confectioner Juchheim, known for baumkuchen cakes, with a tea salon upstairs.

The main shop of Koenigskrone, a Western-style confectionery founded in Mikage, Kobe, in 1977.

A teppanyaki steakhouse in Sannomiya that dates from 1945 and serves Kobe beef.

The main restaurant of Mouriya, a Kobe beef company founded in 1885, a short walk from Sannomiya Station.

A pork bun shop on the Nankinmachi square, founded in 1915 and selling takeaway buns.

A city park next to Kobe City Hall that serves as a main venue of the Kobe Luminarie.

A viewing area near the summit of Mt. Maya, reached by cable car and ropeway, known for night views of Kobe.

A city beach on Kobe's Suma coast beside JR Suma Station, run as a swimming beach in the summer season.

A Daimaru department store beside Nankinmachi, a few minutes from Motomachi Station.

A hillside district of Western-style houses of former foreign residents, many of them open to visitors.

Red-brick waterfront warehouses housing restaurants and shops by the harbor.

A department store run by Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores in Sannomiya.

A waterfront shopping complex at Kobe Harborland with shops, restaurants, a cinema and the Mosaic Ferris wheel.

A long covered shopping arcade near Motomachi Station with shops, cafes and restaurants.

Kobe's Chinatown, a compact pedestrian quarter of food stalls and restaurants.

A covered shopping arcade in the centre of Sannomiya with fashion shops, cafes and restaurants.

A Harborland waterfront complex with restaurants, shops and a Ferris wheel.

A multiplex cinema inside the Bluemall shopping centre at HAT Kobe.

An independent cinema in the Shinkaichi entertainment district of Kobe.

A small art-house cinema inside the Kobe Art Village Centre.

A cinema on the top floor of the Kobe Kokusai Building near Sannomiya.

A multi-screen cinema in the Harborland waterfront area.

A long-running repertory cinema in the Shinkaichi area.

A branch of the Round One entertainment chain near Kobe Sannomiya Station, with a bowling alley.

A long-established Kobe live music house in Sannomiya that marks its 40th anniversary with a regular show schedule.

A basement live music bar near Tor Road that stages shows by independent artists.

A live house opened in 2010 in the Sannomiya area, with a bar menu for visitors who come to drink.

A jazz club and restaurant near Kitano that says it opened in 1969, with live jazz and course meals.

An indoor arena of about 10,000 capacity on the Shinko waterfront, home of the Kobe Storks basketball team and used for concerts.

A football and rugby stadium in Misaki Park, home ground of Vissel Kobe and the Kobe Kobelco Steelers.

A coworking space with a café-style lounge near Sannomiya Station.

A baseball stadium in Kobe Sports Park that hosts Orix Buffaloes games and amateur baseball.