On the New Year's Holidays of 1943, when Noda stood on the top of Mt. Mekko-san (later Kande-cho, Nishi Ward [Kobe City]) and looked around, the virgin land only dotted with farmer's houses appeared to him to overlap the construction of the town of Shinkyo (Xingjing) he had seen in Manchuria, and so he dreamed the construction of the ideal new city as the region lying inland from the port.
1943年正月、野田は雌岡山（後の西区(神戸市)神出町）の頂に立ち、農家が点在するだけの処女地に満州で見た新京の町づくりをダブらせ、港の後背地として理想的な新都市建設を夢見る。