"It’s only Japan’s fifth-biggest city, and it happens to be located (almost literally) in the shadow of Osaka, a pair of circumstances that conspires to keep Kobe off many foreign visitors’ travel radar. It’s got its share of corporate headquarters, though, so this is the rare case where business travelers are in on a little secret: Kobe is a vibrant city, and a beautiful one — best seen, perhaps, from the pedestrian-friendly, waterside Harborland development, a mixed-use commercial and entertainment district home to what might be the city’s top luxury hotel, the Hotel La Suite Kobe Harborland." - Tablet Hotels