However, because the settlement was quite crowded, starting in about 1880 many foreign residences were built near the town of Kitano-cho on Yamamoto-dori street, in what is now a Preservation District for Groups of Historic Buildings (or "Judenken" [Groups of Historic Buildings] in Japanese), and as a happy consequence the foreign residences built in this area escaped damage during the war.
ただ、居留地が手狭になったため、1880年頃から六甲山麓の重要伝統的建造物群保存地区（重伝建）である北野町山本通付近に多くの外国人住宅が建てられ、戦災を免れた。