Sannomiya is a bustling town center and is a great place to live if you want nightlife and an abundance of shopping and dining options. You can find department stores, theaters, bars, many fine restaurants and supermarkets. Around the station are numerous shopping arcades such as the Sannomiya Center Gai shopping street, which runs from Sannomiya to Motomachi and Santica, a large underground shopping arcade. The area is also home to the 2km long Kokashita shopping arcade under the JR railway tracks.<\/p>\n
The Motomachi and Tor Road areas are especially popular as is the nearby Nankinmachi China town (the only one in western Japan) which is home to a number of authentic Chinese restaurants and Chinese grocery stores. If you are active in sports check out the The Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club which is popular with foreign residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"city":[53],"town":[61],"class_list":["post-2048","area","type-area","status-publish","hentry","city-kobe-expat-areas","town-chuo-ku"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relojapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area\/2048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relojapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relojapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/area"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relojapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relojapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"town","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relojapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/town?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}