Kobe has accumulated marine transport, shipbuilding, and ports and harbors, has shaped a dynamic maritime industrial cluster, and has come to be blessed with a regional edge as a hub of maritime industry in East Asia.However, nowadays, the influence of the maritime industry on the Kobe regional economy is slowing down and the cluster effect is going down.This article considers the necessary measures for the recovery of the maritime cluster based on an analysis of the present state of the Kansai maritime cluster and a survey of regional maritime specialists' perception.