{"id":2513,"date":"2017-06-27T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/kobe-love-port-or-the-minato-matsuri\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:35:14","slug":"kobe-love-port-or-the-minato-matsuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/kobe-love-port-or-the-minato-matsuri\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Love Port or the Minato Matsuri 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32911 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/japaninfoswap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kobe-love-port-2017-500x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kobe Love Port (Minato Matsuri) is an annual festival held on\u00a0Dainitotte (the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Pier) east of Meriken Park close to the\u00a0Port Terminal station on the Portliner. The festival celebrates\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/japaninfoswap.com\/public-holidays-japan\/\">Marine Day,<\/a>\u00a0express\u00a0gratitude for the blessings of the ocean, and hope for\u00a0prosperity in the coming year. \u00a0This festival has a distinct nautical theme, but in most other ways you will it a standard Japanese festival featuring delicous food and entertainment. \u00a0Each year is different, but the festival hosts a dedicated stage where a wide variety of acts from taiko drum displays to bands\u00a0and &#8220;talents&#8221; are invited to perform.<\/p>\n<p>You can get there via a free shuttle bus between Sannomiya, Motomachi, and Kobe stations on the JR line and the festival, but the nearest station is actually\u00a0Port Terminal Station on the Portliner. If you are highly motivated, getting to the festival takes \u00a020 minutes on foot from Sannomiya.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwiQ_LURAiE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<h2>Kobe Love Port\u30fbMinato Matsuri 2017<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>July 16, 17th (Sunday &amp; Monday) 2017,\u00a010:00 to 20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Pier No. 4 in the Shinko neighborhood of Kobe<br \/>\n2 Shinko-cho Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo-ken 650-0041 (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/fERvvRsTTr62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Map<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minatomatsuri.jp\/page\/english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.minatomatsuri.jp\/page\/english<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kobe.minatomatsuri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/kobe.minatomatsuri<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kobe Love Port (Minato Matsuri) is an annual festival held on\u00a0Dainitotte (the 2nd Pier) east of Meriken Pa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,68,165],"tags":[69,72,46,74,185],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-festivals","category-kobe","tag-event","tag-hyogo-prefecture","tag-july-2","tag-kobe-city","tag-kobe-festivals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50914,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/50914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}