Why You Should Visit
The after-dark edition of Cul Bar Town, a neighborhood food-and-drink event in Sanda's Culture Town district. Eighteen carefully chosen shops and community groups — most of them local to Sanda — set up at Spark Base, the startup hub on Kwansei Gakuin University's Kobe-Sanda Campus. Expect taco rice, grilled beef skewers, spice curry and shaved ice with free-pour syrup, plus local sake, coffee, a DJ set, hula dancing and craft workshops for kids. Four hours from 4pm until sundown, with adults, students and children all mixed together.
Participating Shops
Shop List & Map
Essentials
- location
- Spark Base, Kwansei Gakuin University Kobe-Sanda Campus (Sanda City, Hyogo)
- period
- August 2, 2026 (Sun)
- Time
- 16:00–20:00
- cost
- Free entry (pay per item at each food booth and workshop)
- Kobe · Gluten-free
- access
- About 15 min by Shinki bus from Shin-Sanda Station (JR Takarazuka Line), on the Kwansei Gakuin University route. By car, exit at Kobe-Sanda IC on the Chugoku Expressway and use the parking lot next to tlahus, beside the venue.
- NOTE
【FOOD & DRINK】Last order 19:30
- NORTHERN EIGHT COFFEE — taco rice, nachos, alcohol, soft drinks
- Konbibi — carefully selected sake
- B.O.G — spicy grilled hine chicken, hinepon, alcohol, soft drinks
- GRILL Manjiya — beef tongue skewers, harami skewers, meat-wrapped onigiri, shaved ice with free-pour condensed milk and syrup
- Runway Hana — karaage, long fries, yakitori, corn dogs, hash potato
- Boom Boom Coffee — coffee and international spirits
- Curry Kissa Toki — spice curry
- POTEKICHI — sweet potato chips
- mamma — ginger ale, iced chai
【WORKSHOPS】Held inside Spark Base / registration until 19:00
- GoodHookFes — remake workshop & flea market
- Play boccia! — para-sport boccia session
- A, Mikke! — Sanda board game & 'future map' of Sanda
- UNIVERS& — make your own galaxy jar
- SSV Kwansei Gakuin — draw Sanda! sparkly original slime making
- SDGstep — keyring making
- CAMP×US — lantern making & Camping Campus intro
DJ & STAGE
- Karl & Casso (DJ) — DJ unit based in Sanda and Kobe
- Hula Dance Circle Mahalo — hula performance, then an open dance session
RAFFLE
19:20 — WE ARE SANDA grand raffle
On the day
- Held in light rain, cancelled in heavy rain. Cancellations are announced on the Gakumachiren website
- Check the booth layout on site
- Drivers should use the parking lot next to tlahus. The organizers accept no liability for collisions or theft within the lot
- Drinking under 20 and drink-driving are illegal in Japan; no alcohol is served to anyone driving a car or bicycle
※The vendor lineup is subject to change.
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