Last updated: October 2025

Information on Hyogo

Hyogo Tourism Guide
Official Hyogo Website has a multilingual living guide (useful for information on marriage, divorce, medical, pension, language courses, housing, emergency, and other information)
Hyogo International Association

Japan Travel

Hyogo: The Heart of Japan
Japan Guide
Japan National Tourism Organization
Seat61 – on how to use the train system in Japan
Shinki Bus is one of the largest companies that operates within the Kansai area
Zentan Bus is based in Tajima. There are highway buses that go to and from Kobe and Osaka
Highway Toll Calculator with instructions

Post Office & Shipping

Postal Communication Guide – a PDF with useful phrases/exchanges
Yamato Transport– TsumeHoudai (flat rate shipping service up to 55lbs.)

Food

Tabelog – Japanese-language restaurant search website with fairly exhaustive listings
Gurunavi – search tool
Kaldi Locations
Costco Locations
Foreign Buyers Club
Japan Vegetarian Society
Kansai Scene is a free monthly publication made for the foreign community in the Kansai area. It is packed full of useful information and has really good maps.

Teaching Resources

ALTopedia (sucessor to Englipedia) contains various helpful teaching materials for ALTs and JTE
MES English offers high quality flash cards in various sizes and categories
Genki English is full of fun-packed games, songs, flashcards, etc
Altivities contains a library of interactive activities and games that are usually done on paper

Japanese Study

See the Learning Japanese page or CLAIR’s Japanese Courses

News

Japan Times
Asahi Online
Japan News Net
Japan Today
BBC Worldnews – Asia
CNN
Political Cartoons

Shopping

Second Street popular op shop mainly selling and buying second hand clothes
Hard Off another popular op shop with a variety of second hand goods
Jimoty second hand marketplace listed by private sellers (similar to Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist)