Kobe is surrounded by mountains and the ocean and is blessed with their respective benefits. We have established superiority as a port town by taking advantage of the warm climate of Setouchi and the excellent location as a key hub of traffic.
1853, Perry was taking national isolation until opening the country to Japan, but by the arrival of the black ships the port in Hyogo prefecture now also opened, opening the door to the world.

In the Middle Ages, the current city of Kobe straddled Settsu and Harima.
It was an important place of shipping industry connecting Kyoto which was the capital of those days and the Seto Inland Sea.

he earliest observation in Kobe as a key point of transportation is taken, and in the end of the Heian era Heisei Komori starts to rebuild one night in Okuwa at the port of Kobe. Based on the night in Oyoda, Kiyomori starts trade with Song (the then Chinese dynasty). There was also a temporary capital from Kyoto which was the center of those times to Fukuhara at the time.

Since the point of important transportation with which people and things go, the land of Kobe is regarded as a serious base also in the military and it became the stage of the battle of Minatogawa where the North Korean army defeated Kusuna Masunari in 1336 in the North-South morning era It was.

Since ancient times Kobe has flourished as a port town connecting the sea and the flatland. There is a kitchen in Osaka in the east, and it was a base that connects east to west as a nomadic place of the western country road itself.

By the arrival of the Black Ship, the Japan-US Cooperation Agreement on Trade and Commerce was concluded in 1858, Kobe opened in 1868.