Kobe City Museum of Literature, Literary museum in Ōji-chō, Japan

The Kobe City Museum of Literature occupies the former Branch Memorial Chapel of Kwansei Gakuin University, built in 1904 to a design by M. Wignall and funded largely by John Kerr Branch of Richmond, Virginia. The brick building lost its tower and interior in wartime bombing; the tower was restored in 1993. Inside, a recreated corner of poet Tabuchi Ikuta's study is on display.

The museum building was originally a chapel constructed during the Meiji period by an American financier. It was converted into a literature museum in 2006 and later designated as a protected cultural property.

The permanent exhibition groups 41 Kobe-linked novelists, poets and writers by era, showing manuscripts and personal items alongside period photographs of the city. A corner recreates part of the study of poet Tabuchi Ikumi, and a Kobe literary map and a shelf of Kobe books let visitors follow local authors and works set in the city.

The museum is a five-minute walk from Hankyū Ōji-kōen Station, eight minutes from JR Nada Station and eleven minutes from Hanshin Iwaya Station. It closes on Wednesdays (or the following day if Wednesday is a holiday) and from 28 December to 4 January. Opening hours are 10:00–18:00 on weekdays and 9:00–17:00 on weekends and holidays.

The chapel lost its tower and interior in a World War II air raid; it was rebuilt without the tower for the 1950 Kobe Exposition, and the tower was only restored in 1993. Before becoming a museum it housed a citizens' art class, an American cultural center and the Oji municipal library.