After the Chinese began arriving in Kobe in 1868, they settled into a compact area called Nankinmachi. Its namesake is Nanjing, the previous capital city of China from the 3rd until the mid-20th century. Today, Kobe’s bustling Chinatown is a two-block-square tourist attraction featuring steaming street food with mouth-watering aromas intermingled among 100 souvenir shops. In the center is a public square with a gazebo. This is a great place to rest and people watch while munching on dim sum, a dumpling typically filled with beef, pork or chicken.