Kobe
A self-guided audio walking tour of Kobe.
Kobe opens toward the sea and rises toward forested hills, and the city's character lives in that space between them. The old foreign settlement left behind wide streets and a certain European softness that blends into the surrounding Japanese city in ways that still feel alive rather than preserved. Walking from the waterfront up into the hillside neighborhoods, you sense a city that has always known how to absorb the world and make it its own. In the app, 25 stops in Kobe are narrated aloud, about 42m of listening across 5 walking routes, in 13 languages, offline once downloaded. Choose a route or build your own, then walk while a calm voice tells you the story of each stop. The app also maps 55 Instagram photo spots, social media photo locations with directions to where you stand for the shot.
