I have tasted kobe beef and quite like it but know nothing about it. Is it a different type of cow?
I've never had it, but at one time, in Japan, that cattle were workhorses used in agriculture, forestry, and mining instead of for meat.
So do you think the meat would be usually more tougher then normal cow meat?
Probably.  That was the only type of cattle in Japan until the late 1800s, then new cattle was imported and cross-breeded with the native stock. Maybe that helped.
So it is becoming more popular in the west now?
Maybe, but I've never heard of a wrangler or cowboy in Japan, so there can't be too many cattle.
Its making me even more curious. I wonder what they look like or are shaped. I guess I also can't visualise a Japanese cowboy. Have you ever tried the Kobe Beef?
I haven't tried it.  I don't know what the cows look like, but crossbreeded typed are the Black, Brown, Polled, and Shorthorn.