Travel Tips for Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan is a unique tourist destination full of humanistic feelings, where you can structure a cultural station of your own, and you can summarize the traditional culture of Japan and the natural beauty of the region, which is really worth visiting.

Onsen

Hyogo Prefecture is rich in onsen. Among them, Arima Onsen and Josaki Onsen are the representative hot spring areas in Japan. There are inns and hotels in the hot spring areas where you can enjoy the pleasures of the hot springs. In the inns and hotels, you can enjoy delicious dishes made with local ingredients. There are also many hot spring baths in Hyogo Prefecture. Take a dip in a hot spring to cure your fatigue from traveling.

Gourmet food

Hyogo Prefecture is famous for its Kobe beef, game dishes, mountain treasures such as Tamba black beans and matsutake mushrooms, and seafood such as blind pearl snow crab, Akashi sea bream, oysters, and blowfish. Hyogo Prefecture also has a large number of old sake breweries that produce fine wines. There are also colorful local delicacies such as Kobe desserts, fried steak and rice, and _roku cooking.

Popular Attractions

Hyogo Prefecture, surrounded by mountains and the sea, is rich in natural beauty and history. Here are a few highly recommended spots: Roadside Castle (Japan's first UNESCO World Heritage Site), Takeda Castle Site (known as the "City in the Sky"), Sanin Coastal Geopark, Hajime Memorial Museum, Iajima Islands coastline, Tamba's Red Leaf Temple, Hana-no-Shima (Flower Island), Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefectural Public Library, and the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History and History. Awaji Island, and Hyogo Prefectural Stork's Country Park are all very famous places to visit.

Shopping

Kobe, known as the fashion center of Japan, is a great place to enjoy shopping. There are large-scale shopping centers and outlet malls dotted around the area where you can buy the most popular fashion items of the moment. There are also many traditional crafts that Japan is famous for, including Miki gold objects, Banshu weaving, Toyooka buns, Tambayaki and other crafts that are famous overseas.

Festivals and Events

Hyogo Prefecture has different festivals and events for each of the 12 months of the year, such as the Nishinomiya Shrine Grand Festival, the Daughter's Festival, the Spring Festival, the Jogasaki Onsen Festival, the Cherry Blossom Festival, the Kobe Matsuri Festival, the Himeji Castle Festival, the Yukata Matsuri Festival, and the Hanabi Matsuri Festival, among others.