Kobe Chinatown

Kobe Chinatown

Kobe Chinatown (Nankin-machi "Nanjing town") (Japanese: 南京町; Simplified Chinese: 南京町) is located in Kobe, Japan. There are over 100 restaurants, shops and a Chinese temple (関帝廟).

Kobe's Chinatown developed as the residential area of Chinese merchants, who settled in Kobe after the city's port had been opened to foreign trade in 1868. At that time, Japan didn't have a peace treaty with China, and so it was not permited to live in this foreign settlement for Chinese people, so they lived in the neighborhood of the other foreign settlers. That was the beginning of Chinatown. Now there are over 10,000 Chinese people living in Kobe,there are a few residents in this Chinatown, because they didn't have many trouble with Japanese and many of them began to treat various business.

Train

*JR Kobe Line, Motomachi Station (3min from Sannomiya Station,25min from Osaka Station)
*Hanshin Main Line, Motomachi Station (3min from Sannomiya Station,30min from Umeda Station)

Highway

*Hanshin Expressway 3 Kobe Route, Kyobashi Exit
*Hanshin Expressway 5 Wangan Route, Rokko Island Exit

ee also

*Chinatowns in Asia
** Yokohama Chinatown
** Nagasaki Chinatown
*Chinese in Japan
*China
*Motomachi (Hyogo)

External links

* [http://www.nankinmachi.or.jp/ Kobe Chinatown Official Website] (Japanese)
* [http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~ochm1979/index1.html Kobe Overseas Chinese History Museum] (Japanese)


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