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Kobe Slideshow
Kobe
Travel Blogs from Kobe, Japan
Kyoto ... So Refined
... bloomed around us. Near the bottom is the snack stand where we enjoyed a deliciously refreshing ice dessert with flavors of Japan, including macha! We were a minute late getting back to the city bus. But Akagi-san had raced ahead a had the driver ...
Japan
... as we had heard that "on-ship time" had changed from 2000 to 1800. I later found out this was because a typhoon is headed toward Japan! In fact, they re-routed us, so now rather than sailing for two days and arriving in China, then going to Hong Kong, ...
Farewell Tomogaoka
As the Japanese school year ends in March, and begins again in April, I had to say goodbye to my first school- Tomogaoka. The last month at the school was really wonderful, and barely seemed like school, ...
Around and about
... back down to the Kansai region. I got to experience the Tenjin Matsuri festival in Osaka. Luckily in my last month in Japan I have actually got to a few festivals. Rebecca and I had the unforgivable habit of somehow getting to all the local festivals ...
We-love-beef...
... massaging them so that there meat becomes enriched in fat that makes the meat truly outrageously great... We got to a very very rainy Kobe and booked a cheap hotel from our guide book, with a lady at the tourist info desk. The hotel was called Super ...
Japanese School System
... ; Of course the differences between the school systems doesn't stop there, a few other amusing differences are: - in Japan the students have their own room and the teachers move from room to room with baskets full of teaching materials ...
Danny Capsulised
... So, on this day I took the 12 hour train, ferry, bus, foot ride from a tiny island off the coast of the southern main island of Japan to a bustling port city near Kyoto. Thank God for my JR pass. On the way I missed one of the shinkansens so I had to wait ...
Tea Ceremony with my Javanese family
This is me and my girlfriend at her mums friends house for learning and taking part in the Tea Ceremony at her own house,it was a wonderful ...
Low
... and we are both looking forward to being cooped up on a boat and being forced to do nothing. Having said all this, our Japan experience has been truly wonderful. We have seen so many amazing things in the last month, learnt so much along the way and it ...
Ichi go ichi e
... a wonderful (but broken) conversation with the bartender and barmistress. They were very friendly and we talked about languages, japan, the US, politics and religion all without anyone really being able to speak the others' language. From ...
Kobe Beef is overrated
Hello, of course I stopped in Kobe and had some beef there. It was delicious and expensive. 150gramm Rump Steak cost 4500JPY. Roughly 45 Euro. Nice. The cook was so friendly to prepare it in front of my eyes. Unfortunately is the meat mamorized with ...
Kobe Beef
There's nothing to do in Kobe, why come then? For the beef. The wagyu beef they have here has a lot of "marbling" of the unsaturated fats making it melt-in-the-mouth smooth. Apparently the cows are fed a diet of beer and sake and ...
Golden Week 2007-Kyoto
... so after about 20 minutes I just gave up and decided to head South towards the Gion district (the original center of Japan's notorious "floating world") and the Kiyomizu temple. After an unnecessarily long bus ride, I made it to the temple road and ...
Traveling to Tokyo... night in Roppongi
Today was our second day in Japan and I met up with Silvi around 10am and went to the train station to catch a train to Tokyo. Our train didn't come for an hour so we hung out in the train station lobby and then hopped on the bullet train. The ...
Exploring the coast west of Kyoto
... to stop off in Kobe the site of the powerful 1995 earthquake that killed between 5 and 6,000 people. As you'd expect in Japan, there's little evidence of the tragedy now, apart from some subtle memorials. We travelled in the cable car up to the highest ...
on par
... the train, as we went zoomed into yet another tunnel (under a mountain), i came to the conclusion that if Japan had less (mountains) it would pretty much be one huge city. this is what one thinks of when they have nothing better to ...
The wrong slippers
... uses the same bath water and it stays there for days. The bath is no ordinary bath, but what you'd expect in Japan - temperature gages, lots of buttons. Oh I don't think I have mentioned the toilets here yet either. They are super ...
Comida en Kobe y sake
... ). Las senoras de Kobe pagaron por todo. Nos dejaron alucinadas. Cuando nos despedimos, Nicola y yo nos fuimos a ver el muelle de Kobe, que tiene varios edificios emblematicos y volvimos a Osaka a eso de las nueve de la tarde. Por la noche, salimos de ...
Refining Culture in Japan
... Sannomiya Station in the middle of the city. Everything is within walking distance here; the malls, bullet train at Shinto-Kobe station and the parks. Japan is very expensive so I decided to eat at local stands. For dinner, I would go to a convenience ...
Kobe under water
... we will leave Osaka and head out to Kyoto. edit: In our hotel in Osaka we met another german who is travelling 7 weeks in Japan by himself without speaking Japanese. Also funny that we met a young man from New Zealand here again who we first met in ...
Japan
... hit up Julio's now that Bogarts is closed until November (No speeding now, alright? Tap those brakes). Alright, so we got into port in Kobe, Japan on Tuesday and we're all just dying in line, waiting to get out from our 8 day cruise. I had a couple ...
Catching up with Choc Chip
... and I was very happy to leave. Time with Choc Chip Shoko (Choc) pointed out and unintentionally displayed many of the eccentricities of Japan. For instance, almost all the streets in Japan have the little green man to tell you when to walk. Even if the ...
The adventure continues
... and stature than Americans. The clothes are a smaller and slimmer fit. I usually wear a small in the US, but in Japan I'm either a medium or a large. Quite depressing, but their fashion sense is amazing. The clothing is unique. Words can't do it justice. ...
A Needed Holiday!
... New Zealand and is used to being very near the sea. And this was the first time she`s seen the sea since we`ve been in Japan. She collected shells and I sat on some rocks with my feet in the water watching the kids try to catch things. It was SO relaxing. ...
Working Girl
... my days are quite varied. There are middle aged business men who are quite content to compare Australia and Japan's education systems for forty minutes. There are school girls with extremely infectious giggles who I teach words such ...
Kobe, its whats for dinner!
... Thai standards. Everything looks great but in the back of your head you really wanted a chance to sample that Kobe. Luckily, as Michelle described, we stumbled on this stand that previously eluded us. Simply grilled skewers of ...
Back in Kobe
2011-02-25: Arriving in Kobe I checked into the Green Hill Hotel again, and then I took the City Loop bus (650yen for the day pass) and drove down to the habour which I didn`t see last time. The famous Harbour Tower and the Maritime musem are nice to walk ...
A little more about Japan
... needed sleep on the bus to Hiroshima. Yes, I decided that I wanted to visit Hiroshima for day which is a 5-hour bus ride from Kobe, Japan. This blog entry isn't not going to be that long because I’m not really sure how to put into words how ...
Get Lost Osaka!
... south? Who knew a compass would have come in handy right there in the middle of the second largest city in Japan? I retraced my steps and asked several people for directions to Yodibashi Camera, including the lady in the information center, who was ...