The Nagata area in Kobe is recognized as the origin place of chemical shoes in Japan. It is recorded that the first products of it's kind were developed in the former half of the 1950s, an age of shortage, by reusing plastic sheets as their main material.

#600 Shoes

Type

Local specialties

Place

Shoes Plaza

Area

Kobe, Hyogo

Country

Japan

Date

4 March 2022

The place and area names are as of the visited points of time.