This article examines the reconstruction of buildings for business purposes in the Southeast Nada of Kobe, one of disaster areas heavily damaged by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. It is clarified that the recovery of places for business is still stagnant at the time of our research, nearly four years after the event. Retail stores, eating houses, and small sized commerce buildings combined with living purpose are in the crushing situation, and the new construction of mid- to high-rise buildings including offices has made relatively good progress, resulting in the homogeneity of business and building types in the neighborhood.
