's the sixth-largest city in Japan and's the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1.5 million. The city's located in the Kansai region of Japan and's part of the metropolitan area. Kobe's classified as one of Japan's seventeen designated cities. Originally known by the name, earliest written records regarding the region come from the Nihon Shoki, which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in 201 A.D. For… (More on Kobe)