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Kobe Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kobe
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Crowne Plaza Kobe
203 reviews -
Kobe Bay Sheraton Hotel & Towers
137 reviews
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Chisan Hotel Kobe
70 reviews
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Portopia Hotel Kobe
217 reviews
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New Otani Kobe Harborland
34 reviews -
Hotel Monterey Kobe
104 reviews
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Meriken Park Oriental Hotel Kobe
192 reviews
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Sannomiya Terminal Hotel Kobe
40 reviews
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Hotel Okura Kobe
187 reviews
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Maiko Villa Kobe
70 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express Shin Kobe
36 reviews
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Sunroute Sopra Kobe
38 reviews
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Quality Hotel Kobe
14 reviews
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the b Kobe
90 reviews
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Hotel La Suite Kobe Harborland
77 reviews -
Tokyu Inn Kobe
40 reviews
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Daiwa Roynet Hotel Kobe Sannomiya
54 reviews
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Kitagami Hotel Kobe
8 reviews
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Sun Members Kobe
1 review
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Kobe Gajoen Hotel
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Green Hill Hotel Kobe
11 reviews
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Kobe Kitano Hotel
44 reviews
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Hotel Kitano Plaza Rokkoso Kobe
9 reviews
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Seapal Suma Kobe
5 reviews
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Hotel Trusty Kobe Kyukyoryuchi
37 reviews
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Kobe Sannomiya Union Hotel
57 reviews
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Hotel Kobe Shisyuen
9 reviews
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Kosenkaku Kobe
9 reviews
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Hotel Tokyu Bizfort Kobe Motomachi
51 reviews
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Hotel Quality One Kobe Motomachi
11 reviews
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Arima Grand Hotel Kobe
49 reviews
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Hotel Piena Kobe
89 reviews
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Arima Royal Hotel Kobe
11 reviews -
Hotel 123 Kobe
30 reviews
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Apa Hotel Kobe Sannomiya
37 reviews
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Casabella Inn Kobe
10 reviews
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Urban Hotel Kobe
4 reviews -
Kobe Kita-No-Saka Hotel
14 reviews
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Hotel Setre Kobe
9 reviews
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Kobe Luminous Hotel
15 reviews
Kobe
Travel Blogs from Kobe, Japan
Dim Sum in Kobe
This is a top pick! ... the first sitting of their dim sum course. Bank holiday crowds filled the remaining unoccupied tables. Sitting at a Chinese restaurant in Japan meant I could truly compare the Japanese service with a Chinese experience. We were rushed to our table and a ...
Time Flies
This is a top pick! ... out and throw myself in at the deep end by taking myself to what will be the first of many landmarks which I will visit in Japan - Himeji castle, which is supposedly the most impressive in Japan. So off I went on a local train and then a "special rapid" ...
Kobe
This is a top pick! ... clue as to where it was headed (damn that Kanji) and thankfully found it taking us back into town (conveniently landing right by KFC!). Quite a few other occasions found us back in Kobe (i even spent a birthday there) as there are lots of pubs ...
The Road Was Long
This is a top pick! ... post-clubbing Chinese meals in Stowell Street in Newcastle seem to have really paid dividends. A must for any would be visitor to Japan. I expect that my chopstick ability will be of grand master level when I go home. At the minute it seems as though ...
Kobe and Osaka
This is a top pick! ... round the harbour. There was a memorial garden for the victims of the earthquake in 1995 when 6000 people died. I wandered round Kobe for a while, had some lunch and then decided to find the Sake museum. After walking for half an hour in the wrong ...
Encapsulated
This is a top pick! It is not down in any map; true places never are - Herman Melville Kobe So, we continued to flash our Japan rail pass and moving on from Nara our next port of call was Kobe, via a quick stop-off in Osaka. A historic port and distinct city in its ...
Japanese Rainy Season
This is a top pick! ... stay for a 2nd year and re-contract are treated to a 3-day all expenses paid "conference"/drink-fest in either Kobe/Tokyo, depending on where in Japan you live. Since I live in Western Japan my conference was held in Kobe last week. Each JET's town pays ...
Sakura Season and Japanese Baseball!
This is a top pick! ... the small foreign population has flourished in Kobe and there are around 45,000 foreigners from over 100 countries living there. Kobe was Japan's busiest port and one of the busiest in Asia until the great Hanshin earthquake in 1995, which measured at ...
Japan
Japan Journal April 16, 2006 I arrived in Japan shortly after leaving China, two short days to be exact. With such a little turn around time between the two countries I felt the least prepared for Japan then anywhere else. All I knew was that ...
All aboard the slow boat to China
... terminal and made it through customs without having to give up my gaijin card. Those customs officials are so gullible. Ha! So I'm on the boat, staring out at the Kobe harbour and hoping that any minute now, we're going to ...
Kobe
... up a couple of bottles for the evening too (when in Rome...) Sake found, this left just the small challenge of finding a Kobe beef dinner. Unfortunately, it seems you have to pay through the nose for this (around 60GBP) which was a little beyond our ...
Japan's National Tipple
Today I ventured out to Kobe, number six when it comes to Japan's largest cities. It isn't far way on the train and has a few interesting sites to visit, not least plenty of sake museums and breweries. There was a pretty bad earthquake in Kobe in 1995 and ...
domo-arrigato!!
... loudly in the background. Steph and I looked at each other and said, I love this moment. Those were my favorite moments in Japan, and I cannot ever forget the feelings I had on that train, experiencing the morning. When I first came on this ship, I ...
China Town and Karaoke
... a few of the things that you're missing by now being here. Consider this an attempt to make everyone realize just how wonderful Kobe is and why you should come visit! ;) While roaming around in Chinatown on Saturday I snapped a few photos to add to ...
School
I'm adding this entry to hopefully answer some questions... I have started teaching- finally. The first few weeks I was here were spent learning about my contracting organization, the area, going through job training, summer school, and Japanese ...
japanese internet cafe
I don:t have long to talk about japan i will write more on it later, let me just say the place is mad...i am in an internet cafe and they have lazyboys as the chairs and its got 100 computers. life here is intense and walking down the streets is like a ...
A Christmas Card
... you for teaching us this year. English became my favorite subject because of you. Do you get accustomed to Japan? Japanese adults sometimes look tired to me. But you look vigor everyday! You put heart in us ...
Kobe Luminarie
... show there were endless vendors set up selling festival foods and taking advantage of the hoard of visitors. The Kobe Luminarie is a light festival that is held in Kobe every year in December for approximately 2 weeks to commemorate the ...
Kobe, Day 2
... the conference there was a banquet which me and Maran could attend. The venue was pretty interesting: a place called Kobe Kachoen, a giant greenhouse filled with tropical plants, flowers and various birds. Unfortunately most birds were asleep so late in ...
Day 7 Osaka, Kobe and Nara
Today we made the most of our JR rail passes (unlimited train train travel throughout japan). Last night we stayed up the latest ever....11pm ! (jet lag almost beaten) we talked to loads of lovely people from Japan including an 8 year old girl who is ...
HEALTH CHECK
... good idea to an average employee. To us newly arrived JETs- the idea seemed absurd. We were all required to get physicals in Japan prior to departure and most of us still lack enough of a grasp on the language to understand any of the forms or ...
The Erickson's come to Japan
They did it! The fam came to Japan (Mom, Dad, and Alana) and they had a great time! I'm soooooo proud of them! Seeing my sister being taught Japanese by my students, watching my dad use chopsticks, and hearing my mother recall the things she learned ...
Bringing the Family back home- Osaka/Kobe
... again and took a quick trip to Osaka. Dad had been begging to go to Tokyo all week, so I wanted to show him a glimpse Japan's city life. We were probably in Osaka for less than an hour- but that was more than enough. The crowds were unbearable on the ...
A Tale of One too Many Sakes
Yes, visitng sake distilleries sounded like a good idea at first but we did not count on a handful of factors slowing us down. The breweries were far from public transportation, the heat was punishing, and the samples were nearly 20% ...
Kobe Neighboorhood Day 2
... . Day 1 involved a trip to get our gaijin cards and tours around our stations. Day 2 involved a tour around Sannomiya (the city area of Kobe) and lots of papers and a Japanese test at the KEC. The tour was a bit rushed but I did snag a few shots of ...
The Quake and the Quaff
Yesterday we made a day-trip to Kobe, site of a disastrous earthquake thirteen years ago in which over 6,000 perished. To learn more about the quake we visited the Disaster Reduction Museum. It begins with a multimedia presentation that recreates the ...
To bathe or not to bathe?
... around naked in front of a bunch of strangers was not really something I was looking forward to, but onsen baths are very common in Japan and Kirsten and I decided that we would regret it if we didn't at least go and try it. So, all three of us put on ...
Apartment additions
Upon request here are some pictures of my apartment from the outside. This is the FINAL apartment that I have moved into- to clear up confusion my new address has exactly the same words as the old address but the numbers (apartment number, building ...