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Nankin-machi in the 1930s. Nankin-machi originated in 1868, when Kobe's port was opened to foreigners including Chinese immigrants from Guangdong and Fujian.The newcomers settled in the western end of Kobe's foreign district, which soon became the focal point for subsequent Chinese migrants.
Townscape of the Kobe foreign settlement around 1885, on the coastal road Kaigan-dōri. The Kobe foreign settlement (神戸外国人居留地, Kōbe gaikokujin kyoryūchi), also known as the Kobe foreign concession, was a foreign settlement located about 3.5 kilometers east of the Port of Kobe, [1] in the future Chūō-ku of Kobe, Japan.
Foreign traders in the Yokohama foreign settlement. A foreign settlement (Japanese: 外国人居留地, pronounced "Gaikokujin kyoryūchi") was a special area in a treaty port, designated by the Japanese government in the second half of the nineteenth century, to allow foreigners to live and work.
The Kobe incident (Japanese: 神戸事件, Hepburn: kōbe jiken), also known in Japanese as the Bizen incident (備前事件, bizen jiken) and in English as the Bizen affray or Bizen affair, was a diplomatic incident between Imperial Japan and several Western powers, caused by a skirmish on February 4, 1868, between Bizen soldiers and foreign sailors.
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Motomachi (Japanese: 元町) is a district of Chūō Ward in Kobe, Japan. [1] It is located between Mount Rokkō and the port of Kobe. [2]It is located adjacent to Nankinmachi (南京町: Kobe Chinatown) and Kyū-kyoryūchi (旧居留地: a foreign settlement in the 19th century: there are several buildings from that time, now used as restaurants or coffee shops.).
The Oriental Hotel is a boutique / lifestyle hotel in Kobe, Japan, reopened on March 3, 2010. The hotel is located in the Kōbe kyū-kyoryūchi 25 bankan building at the junction of Kyōmachi-suji Avenue and Nakamachi-dōri Street in the former Kobe foreign settlement. Dating from 1870, it is one of the most historic hotels not only in Japan ...