Station】
17 【Mikage
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Rokko Cable CarnatioNaeutolR

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【Motomachi Station】
Kobe Port Tower
Meriken Park

Located in the proud
waterfront area of port city
Kobe, Kobe Port Tower andMeriken Park are popular
tourist attractions.

Station】
10 【Uchide
Uchide Park

Commonly called "Monkey Park,"
Uchide Park is well known as "apark with a monkey" depicted ina scene from Haruki Murakami's
ﬁrst novel Hear the Wind Sing.

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Sannomiya
OPA

Tel:078-241-8957
Established in 1978, HalfTime is an antique-style
bar that was used as J's
Bar in the movie Hear theWind Sing.

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Post Oﬃcee sta.
UchidAshiya Kobato
Nursery School

The library building, which used
to belong to Itsumi Bank in thelate Meiji period, was relocated tothe current site from Osaka in1930. The building is referred toas "Ashiya City Library (at thattime)" in Smerdyakov versus aGroup of Subordinates of Oda
Nobunaga, a collection of essays
by Haruki Murakami.

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Osaka Municipal
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3 【Kujo Station】Ajigawa River

Uchide Park

【Uchide Station】
Uchide Branch ofAshiya City LibraryOsaaegawe-Mura

The church was established in1921 as the ﬁrst Catholic churchin the so-called Hanshinkan area(the area between Osaka andKobe [both exclusive]). Thechurch is where novelist Shusaku
Endo was baptized and is said tobe the origin of his literarycreations. This beautiful
neo-gothic style church
Uchide Branch ofis a symbol of theAshiya City Library
Shukugawa area.

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Rihga Royal
HotelShinsaibashi

Mukogawadanchi-Mae

Station】
8 【Koroen
Catholic Shukugawa Church

The park stretches from north to south along Ishiyagawa
River, known as a raised bed river. Along the river stands astone monument to Grave of the Fireflies, an animation movie
based on the novel with the same title.

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Nishinomiya Marina

14 【Ishiyagawa Station】Ishiyagawa ParkHERBIS OSAKA, HERBIS ENT,The Ritz-Carlton Osaka

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The monument is an 18-meter
actual-size replica of a popularrobot depicted in the manga
Tetsujin 28-go in the 1950sand 1960s. It was built inc HIKARI PRODUCTION /○KOBE TETSUJIN PROJECT 2011memory of its writer andillustrator Mitsuteru Yokoyama, a cartoonist from Kobe, as asymbol of the reconstruction and revitalization of Kobe.

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【Umeda Station】、【Osaka-Namba Station】& Surrounding Areas

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City Library
Nishinomiya Kofu
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Koyo Gakuin
Junior High School Ashihara Bridge

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Former Foreign
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Nankinmachi(Chinatown) National Route 2

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These two stations are respectively located in the centers ofnorth and south Osaka. The areas surrounding the stations
have various famous restaurants, shops and entertainment
facilities.

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It has been said from ancient times that Hikaru Genji, thehero of Murasaki Shikibu's novel The Tale of Genji, lived
humbly in this temple after moving to Suma from Kyoto. For
this reason, Genkoji Temple used to be called Genjidera(Genji Temple).

Kobe City Hall

【Nishidai Station】
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Nishinomiya
Kaisei Hospital

13

Hyogo Prefectural
Museum of Art

The Former Foreign Settlement of Kobe is a district where
Western foreigners were allowed to live during the late
19th century. The neighboring Nankinmachi is well known
as one of the three biggest
Chinatowns in Japan, alongwith those in Yokohama andNagasaki.

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Station】
19 【Motomachi
The Former Foreign Settlement of Kobe &Genkoji Temple
Marist Brothers
InternationalSchoolgasan Sta.
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National Rou

16【Sumadera Station】
Sumadera Temple【Sumadera
Station】
Genkoji Temple

Sannomiya Center Gai
Shopping District

Kiyomori-zuka
Pagoda & Biwa-zuka
Monument

Built in 886, the temple isnotable for its historicalconnection to the Genpei War ̶a conﬂict between the Taira andMinamoto clans during the late
Heian period. In the grounds ofthe temple is a monument of alife-size reproductionof a scene of theSumadera Temple
one-on-one battle
between Taira noAtsumori andKumagai no Naozane.
The treasure hall ofthe temple houses
items related to thetwo clans, materials
related to theGenpei War, Japan'so l d e st ichigenkin,
one-stringedJapanese harp, and Chidori Kindergarten
other various items.

nzaShida※ The Tale of the Heike is a war epic based on historicalfacts.
The novel 1Q84 has a scene in which a girl called Fukaeri
recites a passage from The Tale of the Heike, in response to arequest from a man called Tengo.

OishBB Plaza
Museum of Art

21

Sumadera Sta.

Kaikoin Temple, which was revived by Taira no Kiyomori, isthe oldest Buddhist temple in Akashi City. The temple isregarded as being located on the site of Akashi no Nyudo's
residence called "Hamabe no Yakata (beach residence)."
Akashi no Nyudo was a ﬁctitious person in the novel The Taleof Genji, who invited the hero Hikaru Genji to move to Akashi
from Suma. In the grounds of the temple are various stonemonuments, including a stone monument to Akashi noNyudo, a stone monument to the pine tree on Akashi no Ura
beach (a monument associated with Hikaru Genji) and a stonemonument built as a memorial to Taira no Kiyomori, which
has been designated a cultural property of Akashi City.

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Sanwa Hondori
Shopping Arcade

UozakiElementarySchool

1822
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Nishi-Shimmachi Sta.

Nishinomiya-ohashiBridge

Kitano “Ijinkan” Foreign Residence Area

2027

Located to the south west ofAmagasaki Station, the Teramachi
district has a concentration ofBuddhist temples ̶ 11 temples intotal now. Although Teramachi islocated in the center of the city, it is a
special place where visitors can feel as
if they were back in the Edo period.

Omaehama

Rokko Cable Car

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

Station】
2 【AmagasakiTeramachi【Koroen Station】 Park
Ashihara Bridge
NishinomiyaerRokko Garden Terrace

KosadoNishamaItayimiyTsukaraade

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Hyogo Daibutsu(Great Buddha)

Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge

The museum exhibits 566
items related to sakebrewing that have been
designated importanttangible folk-culturalproperties by theJapanese government,
allowing visitors toimagine how brewery
workers worked in the olddays. Visitors can also
sample sake and buy
sake products available
only at the museum.

Rokko-Shidare
Observatory

MinatogawaShrine26

Yusei Schoolfor childrenwith SpecialNeeds

Tel:078-854-1029

ROKKOS17 AN

Suma Rikyu Park is a huge urban park consisting of a main park
area including a Western-style garden and a botanical garden
area. The Park has a hill named Tsukimidai, also well known as
Tsukimi no Yama, or Moon Viewing Hill, where Ariwara noYukihira missed Kyoto and his life there and healed his heart byviewing the moon. He was one of the real-life ﬁgures whoinspired Murasaki Shikibu when she created the hero Hikaru
Genji for The Tale of Genji. Meanwhile, the botanical garden areais located on the site of a mansion of the Okazaki family, which
headed the Okazaki conglomerate, on which the conglomerate
depicted in Toyoko Yamasaki's
novel Splender of the family issaid to have been modeled.
Japanese-style rooms of the former
mansion still remain in the Park.

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【Uozaki Station】Sumiyoshi
Kikumasamune Sake Elementary
SchoolMemorial Museum

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Opened to service on April 5,
1998, Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge is
the world's longest
suspension bridge with a total
length of 3,911 meters and acentral span of 1,991 meters.
The two main supportingtowers rise about 300 meters above sea level. The bridgecrosses the Akashi Strait, connecting Higashi Maiko-cho,Tarumi-ku, Kobe City with Iwaya, Awaji City. The bridge ispopularly known as Pearl Bridge, as it looks like a beautiful
string of pearls when it is litght up at night.

【Tsukimiyama Station】
Suma Rikyu Park Tel:078-732-6688

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Located along the Sumiyoshi
River, the former residenceof Junichiro Tanizaki is famous for being the setting for his
masterpiece novel The Makioka Sisters.
iyosh【Maiko-Koen Station】Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge

Foreign Residence Area

Kitano is an area that has
numerous foreign residences.
Many of those residences havebeen designated National
Important Cultural Properties.
Visitors can feel as if they were back in the Meiji and Taisho
periods when they visit traditional Western-style buildings inthe area.

Kiyomori-zuka Tomb is said to have been built as a memorial toTaira no Kiyomori by Hojo Sadatoki when he was a regent of
the Kamakura shogunate. Located next to the tomb is Biwa-zuka
Pagoda. It came to be called as such, because the monument
was believed to be connected with Taira no Tsunemasa, whowas a good player of the biwa, a pear-shaped lute.

YogaiKindergarten

MarinaShukugawa River is a 7-km
clear river that runs in anorth-south direction. Ashihara Bridge is a small bridge thatspans the river near its mouth. The bridge is famous as theone that appears in Haruki Murakami's essay Afternoon inthe Islets of Langerhans.

Tel:078-842-0730

SumThe facility is Japan's onlym u s e u m b u i l t t ocommemorate Sun Yat-sen, agreat Chinese revolutionist, statesman and philosopher. Thefacility, also known as Ijokaku, is a three-storied octagonalbuilding originally built in 1915 as a villa by Wu Jintang, aChinese merchant living in Kobe. Ijokaku was opened to thepublic as Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in 1984 and wasdesignated an important cultural property of Hyogo
Prefecture in 1993.

Station】
22【Daikai
Kiyomori-zuka Tomb & Biwa-zuka Pagoda

There are about 600 stores lining this extensive network ofold classic shopping arcades covering the area stretchingfrom Amagasaki Station to Deyashiki Station, with a
combined length of 2 km. It is said that a shopping arcade inan animated cartoon version of The Melancholy of Haruhi
Suzumiya was modeled after these arcades, which haveprospered as a center of Amagasaki for such a long time.

HamawakiElementary School

center of marine sports in
the Kansai region. It is said
that a yacht harbor depicted Nishinomiya Kofu
High Schoolin a passage in the longnovel 1Q84 by Haruki
Murakami is Nishinomiya Hakushika-kan
Marina.

7

Junichiro Tanizaki"Ishoan"Station】
18【SannomiyaKitano “Ijinkan”

Shinkawa Canal

Memorial Hall

Station】
12 【UozakiFormer residence ofKobe City Bus No. 16 connects Hanshin Mikage Station to
Rokko Cable Shita Station.

SusanoJunior HighSchool

Sanwa Hondori Shopping ArcadeNational Route 43

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MeishinElementary SchoolStation】
27 【Maiko-Koen
Sun Yat-sen

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Ashiya Park

Opened in 1988, theTanizaki
Ashiya City Junichiro
museum houses andMuseum of Art Memorial
exhibits various valuableand History Museum ofitems related toLiterature,
AshiyaJunichiro Tanizaki,
including his favorite desk, ink stone, ink brushes, art objects
and handwritten manuscripts.

Station】
1 【Amagasaki
Amagasaki Chuo Shopping Arcade &Nishinomiya
ShrineMin
atodoMizuki
Elementary
SchoolTel:0797-23-5852

Nishinomiya Sta.

6 【Nishinomiya
Station】
Ashiya City
LibraryRiver

26 【Sumaura-Koen Station】Sumaura ParkThe park is famous as a place where the Battle ofIchi-no-Tani, one of the ﬁercest battles of the Genpei War,was fought. It has historic spots such as Atsumori-zuka, astone monument which is said to have been built as amemorial to Taira no Atsumori. The park, which is famous
as a cherry blossom viewing spot, has been selected as oneof 50 best ﬂower viewing spots in Kobe.

Tel:078-861-5288

The night view of Kobe is oneof the three greatest nightviews in Japan, along withthose of Hakodate andNagasaki. Mt. Rokko, which isone of the best viewing spots
in the Kansai region, oﬀers a panoramic night view of Kobe,
which is called the "ten million dollar night view."a.
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City Hall

Memorial Museum ofLiterature, Ashiya

Tel:078-894-2210

his head and entered the priesthood. The temple houses HyogoDaibutsu, one of Japan's three traditional Great Buddhas in Japan.

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11 【AshiyaTanizaki Junichiro

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21 【Daikai Station】Nofuku Temple (Hyogo Daibutsu)
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Nofuku Temple is depicted in The Tale of the Heike※, a literary classic.
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It is also well known as a temple where Taira no Kiyomori shavedalo2Ajigawa River is one of the tributaries of the lower reach ofKyu-Yodo River (former Yodo River) that runs through Osaka
City from northeast to southwest. Ajigawa River is wellknown as a setting in Muddy River, a novel by Teru
Miyamoto from Osaka. A monument bearing a passage fromthe novel is located near the river.

Station】
4 【Koshien
Hanshin Koshien Stadium Tel:0798-47-1041
The Museum of Hanshin Koshien Stadium
Tel:0798-49-4509

As the mecca of high school
baseball, the stadium has
provided a setting for many
manga such as Dokaben andTouch. It is said that a stadium
depicted in The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle, a novel by Haruki Murakami, is Hanshin Koshien
Stadium.

Station】
5 【Nishinomiya
Nishinomiya Shrine

Nishinomiya Shrine is the head shrineof all Ebisu shrines, or shrines
dedicated to Ebisu, the god of good
fortune. During Toka-Ebisu Festival,
the shrine attracts more than one
million visitors who wish to pray for business prosperity. Theshrine is also depicted in Henkyo Kinkyo (Remote Region,Short Distance), a travel essay by Haruki Murakami.