New Park in Kobe City (video included)

A new park is taking shape in Kobe city.

The building of the park started almost 2 years ago but only now it looks more or less complete. The location is quite particular as it is situated between two main multilevel highways – rout 2 and Kowan Kansen road just before the bridge for Kobe Port Island.

I took the movie this morning from Kobe Port Liner:

Toward the end of the movie you can see a group of people apparently inspecting the construction work. Considering the soon to be held 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake memorial event (Higashi Yuenchi Park,  Chuo Ward, Kobe, early Sunday morning) it is plausible to suspect that the park will be officially opened on 17th of January (even though there was no official confirmation of the event on Kobe city web-page).

Toward the end of the park (direction HAT Kobe) there is a greenhouse like structure (not on the photo) as well some other facilities (possibly a future small bar).

The new park will be a nice acquisition for all Kobe citizens. It will create almost uninterrupted green connection (parks and gardens) from the center of Kobe (Sannomiya) to HAT Kobe (one of the biggest and most beautiful Kobe housing complexes build on the ruins of 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake).