[Hyogo] Kitano Ijinkan-Gai Half-Day Private Architecture Tour

When Kobe opened to foreign trade in 1868, the merchants who arrived built their houses on the slope above the port, and many of them are still standing. This walk goes through Kitano Ijinkan-Gai past the Weathercock House, the Moegi House and the rest, with your guide explaining who lived where, why the architecture mixes Western form with Japanese carpentry, and how the district survived the war and the 1995 earthquake. Views back down over the harbour along the way.