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)
- 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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