Kobe Tor Road

Around this area many foreigners have lived. So I passed some of them on this fashionable Toa Road. Along the road, many miscellaneous shops or restaurants providing ethnic foods are scattered. You can find unique or stylish shops if you go to the alleys.
The shops compares to the ones of Nakazakicho town in Osaka. Items which are not easily obtained can be seen in every shop. For example, antique fabrics, bottons, or beads, import goods, and the like. Toa road stretches from former residential area of foreigners to Yamamoto street near Kitano cho and is a slight slope on halfway.
By the way, do you know why this road is nicknamed «Tor Road»? There are many anecdotes. Among them Tor Hotel affiliated by foreigners opened about 100 years ago. The road seemed to be named after the hotel. It is only nick name, but if you go astray and ask someone where Tor Road is, he or she tells you the how to get here.