Hyōgō

Hyōgō, or KOBÉ, a port of central Japan, situated on the west shore of the Gulf of Osaka, about 20 miles S. of that city. Hyogo is properly on the west side, and Kobe on the east of an unimportant river. Open to foreign trade since 1868, it is connected by railway with Osaka, and has a large direct foreign trade with Europe, America, and Australia. The place has foreign banks, wharves for ocean steamers, extensive shipbuilding-yards, and a large paper-mill. Pop. (1893) 153,382. The imports have an annual value of about £5,000,000; the exports (rice, tea, silk, camphor, fish, matches, porcelain, umbrellas) of about £4,000,000.