Nankinmachi, the Chinatown in Kobe, is small but fun, as well as the usual shops there's a plaza surrounded by food stalls where you can buy Japanese-style Chinese food, well worth a visit. This is a quick shot of one of them.
Rounding out the roundup of Osaka camera stores I visited that I posted a few weeks ago, there are also two near Nankinmachi that may be worth checking out. I've made a map to help you find them.
The more interesting one is Motomachi Camera right behind Nankinmachi, it's a second-hand store that specialises in manual-focus cameras (photo above, the Japanese name is in white at the top of the door). There was what looked like near-new Nikon F100 on sale for 16,500 yen, and the owner explained to me dismissively that he was selling it cheaply "because it requires batteries". May be worth checking out. In addition, there's a Camera no Naniwa just around the corner on the left side of the entrance to the Kobe Motomachi shopping arcade. For completeness, I added Matsumiya Camera, which I posted about last year -- it's about a half hour walk if you stick to the railway line.
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