Kobe, a city located in the central part of Japan, has a unique and diverse food culture, boasting rich agriculture in the countryside and fisheries in the Seto Inland Sea. It also has one of the oldest and biggest ports in Japan, where cultures and people come together. In 2015, taking advantage of the city’s potential, we started the GASTROPOLIS KOBE 2020 project, aiming to make Kobe the launch pad of a fresh and vivid food movement around the world. Our goal is for Kobe to be renowned as a “city of food” by 2020.