Kobe’s third tallest skyscraper at 558 feet is the most unique defining the cityscape: the Kansai Electric Power Kobe Building. This is the local office for Kansai Denryoku Kabushiki-gaisha, an electricity utility company serving Kansai. This region which includes Kobe was once very reliant on nuclear power. However, since 2012, all 12 nuclear reactors have been eliminated in response to the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichicaused by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 2011.
