🐎 Draw a Horse on a 9km GPS Art around Minume Shrine 🗻
Located in Kobe’s Nada Ward, Minume Shrine has long been associated with horses. In ancient times, the Minume area flourished as a port known as Minume no Ura, where travelers, traders, and handlers of packhorses gathered. As a result, the shrine became a spiritual center for people who worked closely with horses. This GPS art course allows you to trace a 9km horse-shaped course through the very streets where this history once unfolded.
The course begins near Minume Shrine and passes through several key stations, including Nada, Maya, Iwaya, Nishinada, and Ojikōen. With JR, Hankyu, and Hanshin rail lines overlapping in this district, the area is easy to access and ideal for city walking or running. The path around Kobe Ōji Zoo and the spacious grounds of Ōji Park offers refreshing greenery and open scenery, bringing a pleasant contrast to the surrounding urban streets.
You will also pass through Suido-suji Shopping Street, a lively local arcade famous for its nostalgic atmosphere and vibrant food culture. This makes it an excellent stop for warming up with a bite to eat after your New Year shrine visit. Throughout the course, you can enjoy views of Kobe’s characteristic landscape—nestled between the Rokko Mountains and the Port of Kobe—creating a unique sense of place found only in the Nada area.
By combining a New Year shrine visit with creative GPS art, this 9km course lets you draw a horse while experiencing the history, culture, and charm of Kobe’s port-town heritage. It’s a refreshing and memorable way to start the year.
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A PIONEER IN GPS ART.
1st work was authorized by Guinness World Records as “the Largest GPS Drawing”.
He is the only Japanese person to be featured in a Google documentary as an innovator. He is fascinated by the idea of drawing with GPS and has published more than 2,500 works.
