1일 고베 워킹 투어: 산, 바다, 사케

Meet your guide on the second floor of Shin-Kobe Station immediately after exiting the ticket gates, between the 7-Eleven and the café in front of the directory board. Your guide will be holding a Snow Monkey Resorts sign. 

Take the ropeway from the station up to the Kobe Nunobiki Herb Garden, with views over the city expanding as the car ascends. The garden sits at the top of the hill and features approximately 75,000 plants across around 200 species in bloom throughout the year.

Walk from the ropeway base down through the Kitano Ijinkan area, a historic district of Western-style residences built by foreign residents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The route passes a 1907 building now operating as a Starbucks and recognized as a registered tangible cultural property. Continue to Ikuta Shrine, one of the oldest shrines in Hyogo Prefecture, where your guide will cover the shrine's history and the water fortune-telling tradition within the shrine forest.

Enjoy a lunch break in the city center, where a variety of Japanese and international dining options are available. Your guide will suggest local options on request. Lunch is not included in the tour price. 

Visit Nankinmachi, one of Japan's three major Chinatowns, before continuing to the Kobe Port waterfront. The port area offers views across Osaka Bay and reflects Kobe's historic role as one of Japan's first cities to open to international trade in the late 19th century.

Travel to the Nada-gogo area, Japan's most productive sake brewing district and the heart of Hyogo Prefecture's sake industry. Your guide will explain the history of sake production in the region and the brewing methods that have made Nada-gogo nationally renowned. One sake tasting ticket is included in the tour price.

Travel back to Shin-Kobe Station, arriving at approximately 16:30 where the tour concludes. Guests who wish to remain in the port area or city center may do so — please inform the guide before the return journey begins.