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Originally Posted by masaegu
Never heard this anywhere. Do you have any idea what happened in Kobe in 1995?
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yeah a lot of business shifted to Tokyo after the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake :P
last I checked business hasn't so much "shifted" to the Kinki area but the Kinki area is taking far less of a hit than their eastern friends.
Oh and for raising a kid, Kobe is pretty great, but I'd recommend any of the towns between Kobe and Osaka, Nishinomiya is as residential as it gets, but Okamoto, Mikage, Ashiya, Shukugawa, etc, they are all very beautiful places moments away from Sannomiya and Umeda with much nicer environments for kids.