Kobe: the vibe
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The verdict
Liked · 72Commenters who have lived in or visited Kobe describe a clean, quiet, well-ordered port city with good cafes, though the material is thin and mostly from travel content.
- cleanliness
- quiet streets
- cafe culture
- order and safety
- Kobe beef and food
- foreigner-friendly neighborhoods
- few people around in some areas
- limited nightlife
- thin remote-work-specific information
- Kobe feels clean, orderly and calm, appealing to people who miss Japan.
- Long-term nomads recommend Excelsior and Komeda cafes for working.
- Former residents call Motomachi and Kobe a good city to live in.
- Some visitors found the city oddly empty, which unsettled them slightly.
- Most content is promotional, so the picture is limited and somewhat biased.
Read from 7 videos, 20 comments and 0 posts on 2026-11-07; the summary is written by a language model and can misread sarcasm.
3 days in Kobe (神戸) as a digital nomad - Great cafes that I want to keep them secret
devaslife · 9K views · 2020
What viewers said
“I'd love to watch vlogs from you! Kobe seems like a wonderful place for vacation.”
♥ 5 likes
“I really love these vlogs. You should to more of them”
“You are such an inspiration !”
“Wow!🤩 رائع !! 😍”
♥ 1 likes
“Nuce, i’m a digital nomad in kobe about 1/2 the year. Usually excelsior or komeda coffee. Will try these :)”
“タクヤさん、いつも素敵な動画ありがとうございます！（inkdropも愛用させて頂いております。） 本当に差し支えなければいいのですが、普段写真を加工しているソフトや今回の動画を編集しているソフトなどを教えて頂けないでしょうか？ これからも動画、タクヤさんの作るサービス楽しみにしております(*´ω｀*)”
“all the drinks are coffee ;p”
“Hi Matsuyama San, I noticed that you use a US ANSI layout keyboard on your macbook. I thought most Japanese uses the JIS layout with extra keys on both sides of spacebar and a fat ISO enter. Is it the case or only a subset of Japanese peopl”
“Found your channel when I searched for tmux and vim, can you share your full vim and tmux config ? I want to use your config as my base.”
“日本語のコメント失礼します。3年ほど前まで花隈に住んでいて、今は品川に住んでいます。改めて神戸・元町はいい街だと東京に来ておもいますね。いつも楽しく動画を拝見させてもらっているのですが、一つタクヤさんがストレートネックになっていないか心配になりました（笑）自分もエンジニアなのですがストレートネックにならないように後継姿勢で仕事しています。少し高いですがこれ効果ありましたよ。https://www.ergohuman.ne.jp/point/angele10/”
Found with a YouTube search for the city and “digital nomad”, fetched 2026-11-07; titles, descriptions and comments belong to their authors and link to the originals.