JAPAN

KOBE

Location : Hyogo-ken(Prefecture) Kobe City Hyogo-ku
Use : only for soccer
Construction period : Planned to be completed in October, 2001
Seats : 42,000

 
When are the matches and how do I get there?
June 5
June 7
June 17
15:30 (06:30 GMT)
15:30 (06:30 GMT)
20:00 (11:30 GMT)
H3 v H4
F2 V F4
Win. Group C v Run-up Group H
 

Air 18 flights in total from Tokyo to either Osaka Itami Airport or Kansai International.

Hydrofoil 25 minutes from Kansai International Airport to Kobe City Air Terminal (K-CAT) on Port Island.

Train JR (Japan Railways) Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen super-express from Tokyo to Shin-Kobe Station in 3 hours 20 minutes, then subway from Shin-Kobe to downtown Sannomiya Station. 25 minutes from Osaka Station to Sannomiya by either JR, Hanshin or Hankyu lines. Access to Misaki Stadium is 10 minutes from Sannomiya Hanadokei Station to Misaki-koen Station on the new Kobe City Subway Kaigan Line.

 

Kobe City has been known for a long time to be a fine harbor and the faulted landform forms a compound alluvial fan in the mountains. Rokko. It is profitable as a harbor since it is located on the seashore and has no rivers in the city, but the northern parts are restricted is has grown stretching from east and to the west. Steel*machine and tool industries are developed in the eastern part and heavy industries are in the central part. The western part has small scaled industries like rubber,*foods and others. The trading from the Kobe harbor takes up about 10% of the entire trading of Japan making it second in trading. Square measure is 540km2, flows towards the southwest then conflux with Yamato River. Temperature changes greatly and its 1,200mm rainfall doesn¡¯t reach the average rainfall amount. After transferring to Kyoto the influence of the highway was deprived and the city area disappeared by the war during the end of the 12th century. But as many temples were rebuilt in the 13th century, it became a newborn city. It became a prefecture office location after the Meiji Restoration and developed into an international tourism city. By the population line-up per industry (1980) the 3rd generation industry population was 69%, making a consuming city comparing to the 2nd generation industry population of 27%. Production of the ink stick,*writing brush,*lacquer ware,*ceramic ware,* textiles,*hand weaving and other legitimate industrial arts are active.

 

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