KOBE Ademen Project | Kobe TOH Association

10 students who came to Kobe for their graduation trip disappeared. In the year 202X, students from Tokyo Keiwa University came to visit Kobe for their graduation trip. All 10 were members of the cosplay club and were from Kobe. Separately from the female members who chose to stay in Osaka, they stayed in Kobe in order to participate in the World Cosplay Cup held at Kobe Meriken Park. They booked to stay at the “Kobe Globe Hotel” online however, it was a hotel that was said to be first built when the port of Kobe was opened and it was a mysterious hotel that did not exist and no information of it remained.

“Did we just time travel?”
“That’s ridiculous”
“Take a look outside!”
“There aren’t any buildings”
“I’ve got no lines on my phones”
“Take a look at this newspaper.
Meiji Year 40 (1907) !”
“It really seems like we time traveled”


“More that than,
what was the name of this town?”
“This is... Hey,
I can’t think of the name”
“I don’t know either.
The girls went to Osaka, didn’t they”
“That’s right and this is…”

As the young men were
worrying about this,
a man who seemed to be
the manager appeared.

As he spoke this,
he disappeared leaving a single map.

“Who are you?”
“Hey, he disappeared!”
“Spooky. I thought he was a ghost”
“Now what”
“There are a lot of movies
where if you search for clues,
you can return to your own time
after you time travel”
“But that’s in the movies”
“There’s nothing else we can do”


“What’s this map? It says CAUBE”
“Isn’t this the hotel map?
There’re 10 hotels with
Globe Hotel in the center”
“That’s right.
We just happened to be 10 people,
why not divide up and go?”


“If anything happens,
let’s meet up here”
“OK, I’ll take this hotel”
“This hotel for me”


“Alright, why don’t
we go in costume?
The theme just happens to be
the Taisho Meiji era”
“Agreed. If we stand out,
the gods may get angry and
send us back to the present.”

At the hotels they went to,
the 10 men found things
that were deeply
related to history and returned to
the Globe Hotel.


“The hotel I went to had the grounds
where soccer was first played in Japan”
“The hotel I went to had the first shop
in Japan to make coffee and sweets”


“We learned about that in history class”
“The port city with mountains and the sea”
“The night scenery beautiful”
“Breads and cakes are delicious”

“Maybe cube be”
“Kaube”
“Maybe the name of this town”


“In the old style kana system,
it was read as kaube”
“Old style kana?”
“For example, you know like butterfly,
you read it as chocho but
write the characters as tefutefu.”
“Yes, I learned about it
in modern or classic Japanese”


“So that means, kaube is…”
“Kobe!”
“So it’s Kobe! This must be
Kobe 100 years ago!”