What's Kobe Beef Gallery

A place
to experience Kobe Beef

Kobe Beef Gallery is a place where you can find true facts about Kobe Beef.

Deepen your knowledge from our easy-to-understand display, watch our skilled-chefs prepare and grill Kobe Beef in front of you. Also, there is an official Kobe Beef restaurant database available.

Greetings

Answers to the questions can be found at KOBE BEEF GALLERY

Kobe Beef, the top-quality beef from purebred Tajima cattle, has established itself as a world-famous beef brand.
While there are many beef brands across Japan, why is Kobe Beef loved by so many people? What makes Kobe Beef special?

Answers to the questions can be found at KOBE BEEF GALLERY.

As the information hub for Kobe Beef, the gallery features exhibits in the form of screens and panels to help you experience the history and quality of Kobe Beef, and also a restaurant where you can actually savor authentic Kobe Beef.
If you want to enjoy Kobe Beef somewhere else, you can find a perfect place from a database, available at the gallery, of restaurants designated by the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association.

I truly hope the gallery can serve as your window into the fascinating world of Kobe Beef.

Hirokatsu Hirai
the Director of a KOBE BEEF GALLERY

The Governor's Message

Hyogo Prefecture is the hometown of Wagyu and is the production area of the world-renowned Kobe Beef. People of Hyogo have been improving Tajima Cattle, which produce Kobe Beef, for more than 100 years by recording and managing their pedigree to keep them purebred.

Kobe Beef, produced from Tajima Cattle with their long tradition passed down over the years, boasts a delicious fat aroma, flavor, and melt-in-your-mouth texture, and it is now being delivered to people around the world under thorough brand management.

Kobe Beef has been nurtured through a deep interaction with the lifestyle in farming villages surrounded by nature. This practice is in line with the philosophy of the SDGs to pass sustainable initiatives on to future generations.

Here at the Kobe Beef Gallery, I do hope that you will experience the value and appeal of Kobe Beef.

Saito Motohiko
Governor of HYOGO prefecture /
Honorary chairman of the Kobe Beef Marketing & Distribution Promotion Association

Access

〒650-0002
KOTO no HAKO Kobe 3F, 1 Kitano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe,HYOGO

TEL： 078-241-7790

Opening hours for the Gallery: 11:30～20:00（No scheduled holidays ）
Opening hours for the Restaurant: Lunch: 11:30～15:00
Dinner: 17:00～20:00（last order 19:00）　*No reservation available
* Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays ( if it's on the same day as public holidays, we'll be open and closed on next day)

Google Map

By car

1.5km north from Ikutagawa Exit on the Hanshin Expressway.
* TIMES Parking lot is available in KOTO no HAKO Kobe. Parking is free when you spend more than 3,000 yen. Please bring your parking ticket.

By train

From Sannomiya Sation: take the Kobe Subway Seishin Yamate line(西神・山手線), get off at Shin Kobe station(新神戸) and go to the North Exit. There is an elevator going up to the 3rd floor. Please take it.

From the Shinkansen Shin Kobe station: Go out the main exit, straight from the exit, and at the end, go outside by turning left, then walking for 1 minute, you will see the sky bridge with the roof. Go straight and you will see the sign of Kobe Beef Gallery.
Go through the ticket gate, and turn left.
Go outside the station building, turn right, and walk along the front of the building until you reach the end of the path.
Then, turn left, cross the narrow road, and walk across the bridge until you reach KOTO no HAKO building. Go through the automatic doubled-door entrance, walk straight on, through another set of automatic doors, along a short path, and the Kobe Beef Gallery is on the left. .