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Kobe Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kobe, Japan
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bit of a late starter..
... sitting around and go see the rest of the town. Next on the list was the Earthquake Memorial Museum. Back in '95 Kobe suffered a catastrophic earthquake which killed six thousand people and destroyed large areas of the docks. As a tribute to the people ...
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 ...
JAPAN
September 12, 2006 We arrived in Kobe, Japan four minutes ahead of schedule - 7:56am. Last night I could sleep, the excitement had been building up since meetings starting that morning and the fever burned through the ship like wildfire. Our Japanese ...
Is this week over yet?
I believed people before when they talked about the ruts of this job- but I never fully understood them. Now perhaps I do... It's only been a 4 day week but I still cannot wait for it to end. I can't say I've been too busy, because I've just started ...
Kobe, Day 3
Today we decided to get food for breakfast from a nearby convenience store. As most things in Japan, the convenience store food was of great quality and everything looked so delicious! So, after some struggle and deliberation, we picked some food and ate ...