Kobe Christmas Market at Nunobiki Herb Garden 2026 Confirmed
神戸クリスマスマーケット -古城のクリスマス- — Kobe, Hyogo (Kansai)
Last updated: Thu, September 24, 2026
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- Runs
- Sat, Nov 7 – Mon, Dec 28, 2026
- Venue
- Kobe Nunobiki Herb Garden & Ropeway (神戸布引ハーブ園／ロープウェイ)
- Tickets
- Christmas-season ticket covering the ropeway round trip and herb garden entry: ¥3,300 for adults and ¥1,650 for children.
- Official site
- www.kobeherb.com
Tickets — best booked ahead
The ropeway + garden ticket is paid. Buying online skips the ticket queue.
- 🎟️ Nunobiki Herb Gardens ticket (ropeway + garden admission) — regular e-ticket booked before you go. The Christmas-season ticket is priced separately, so check the official page for that
- Or check booking on the official site (www.kobeherb.com) →
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Kobe Christmas Market is held at Kobe Nunobiki Herb Garden, about 400 m up Mt. Rokko and reached by ropeway from Shin-Kobe. The observation plaza, built to look like a medieval European castle, is decorated for a 'Botanical Christmas', with a 25 m metasequoia tree, German crafts and mulled wine from the Pfalz region, above a night view of Kobe.
Background
The market sells German crafts — nutcrackers, smokers, cuckoo clocks, Christmas pyramids and schwibbogen — alongside a 'Beer & Wine Fest'. It overlaps with the garden's autumn-leaf light-up: the metasequoias turn colour from mid-November to early December.
Getting there
About 5 min walk from Shin-Kobe Station (Kobe Municipal Subway / Sanyo Shinkansen) to the ropeway base station. The mountaintop garden is not accessible by car; after 17:30 access is by ropeway only.
Tips
- The Christmas-season ticket (ropeway round trip plus garden entry) is ¥3,300 for adults and ¥1,650 for children. Buy online to skip the ticket queue.
- Market hours: weekdays 10:30 AM–4:30 PM; Fridays to Sundays, holidays and every day December 11–28, 10:30 AM–8:00 PM (ropeway until 9:00 PM).
- To see the night view, come on a Friday-to-Sunday evening or after December 11 — on weekdays the market closes at 4:30 PM.
- The garden can't be reached by car. After 5:30 PM the ropeway is the only way up.
Maintained by Tetsu Yamamoto · Last verified against the official source: Thu, September 24, 2026