Kobe Harborland 神戸ハーバーランド
The 50-metre Ferris wheel lights up every evening with 120,000 LED lights over the port.
Until 1982 the Minatogawa freight rail yard and the plants of Kawasaki Steel and Kawasaki Heavy Industries operated here: a waterfront closed to the public. The Municipality of Kobe and the private sector invested over 300 billion yen to redevelop twenty-three hectares, chose the name Harborland through a public competition in 1984 and opened the district in September 1992. Less damaged by the January 1995 earthquake than the nearby centre of Sannomiya, it reopened within a few days and soon became a symbol of the city's reconstruction.
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Harborland, Kobe, Kōsoku Kōbe
