Indian businesses and services in Kobe, Japan

Kobe has one of the oldest Indian communities in Japan. Textile merchants from India were trading through its port by the late nineteenth century; the India Club traces its founding to 1904, the Indian Social Society of Kobe, whose members are mostly Sindhi families, to the 1930s, and the Jain temple in Kitano-cho, opened in 1985, is kept by the city's Indian business families. India's consulate for the region is named for both cities, Osaka-Kobe, though its office is in Osaka.

The restaurants stay close to that history. More than half of this list is in Chuo Ward, around Sannomiya and Motomachi and up the slopes towards Kitano and Yamamoto-dori, a short walk from the temple. Hyogo Ward has a few near Shinkaichi, and Higashinada Ward has two in Okamoto, near Konan University on the Hankyu line. A handful are tagged or named as Nepali, and one has a Bengali name. Few publish their opening hours, so check before travelling. Amagasaki and Nishinomiya, between Kobe and Osaka, have pages of their own.