Clear the Kobe Local Quiz and earn the Kobe Local title. Want to know Kobe even better, or already confident? The tougher courses are next.
Few cities set the sea and the mountains this close together, and the Kobe quiz moves back and forth between them. It visits the Western-style houses of Kitano and the old foreign settlement, Kobe Beef and the sake district of Nada Gogo, Mount Rokko and the hot springs of Arima, and the bustle of Nankinmachi. The Port Tower on the waterfront and the festival of lights that keeps the memory of the earthquake find quiet places among the questions, as does the city's love of pastry and bread. The closer a topic sits to a Kobe native's daily life, the trickier it tends to be. The practice questions make a good first step up the slope.
What is a "Kobekko"? The origin of "Kobe"Which ward contains Kobe City Hall and the central government district?
A new question every day — the real test is the quiz itself.
Take on this quizCorrect answerKobe Beef
Kobe Beef is the name reserved for meat from Hyōgo-raised Tajima cattle that clears the quality standards of the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association, founded in 1983 to define the brand. Few wagyu names travel further — "Kobe" is shorthand for fine Japanese beef around the world.
Source:神戸ビーフ（Wikipedia）
Correct answerAkashi Kaikyo Bridge
The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge links Maiko in Kobe's Tarumi Ward with Iwaya on Awaji Island, opened in 1998. For years it held the record as the world's longest suspension bridge. It carries the expressway that ties Honshū to Shikoku.
Source:明石海峡大橋（Wikipedia）
Correct answerNankinmachi
Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown, spreads just south of Motomachi — one of Japan's big three alongside Yokohama and Nagasaki. More than a hundred shops crowd a compact grid about 200 by 110 meters. It began, the story goes, when Chinese merchants settled just west of the foreign concession after the port opened.
Source:南京町 (神戸市)（Wikipedia）
Correct answerNada & Higashinada Wards
Nada Gogō — five sake villages spanning Nada Ward, Higashinada Ward and Nishinomiya — is Japan's premier brewing district, producing roughly a quarter of the nation's sake. Cold winter winds off Rokkō, the famed miyamizu water, and fine sake rice built its name from the Edo period on.
Source:灘五郷（Wikipedia）
Correct answerOwada-no-tomari
Ōwada-no-tomari, near today's Hyōgo Ward, was the ancient harbor that Taira no Kiyomori rebuilt as his base for trade with Song China — complete, tradition says, with the artificial breakwater island of Kyōgashima, finished in 1173. Through its successor Hyōgo-no-tsu, the port's lineage runs straight to modern Kobe.
Source:大輪田泊（Wikipedia）
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