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Kobe, Day 2
... 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 the evening, but we saw some slightly dazed owls of different sizes, ducks and even penguins! I approached the penguins corralled behind a low fence ...
Kobe : Tatar Mosque, Colonial Homes, Osaka Castle
... the mosque is the only building in the vacinity that survived the bombing.
video : Kobe Mosque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgqe9Kc9 yoQ
website Kobe Mosque
http://www.salatomatic.com/d/Kobe+5277+ Kobe-Muslim-Mosque
Then tried to find the colonial homes. I found out from reading my guidebook that starting from Osaka and heading down to the southern tip is a string of european ...
Japanese Arcades, and our first Karaoke!!
... said he had never been in such an oldschool bar. His student hideko had prepared deep fried stuff (kushikatsu),beef caserole stuff,potato salad and a hot pot of crazyness. The hot pot of crazyness had fish and octopus in it so when she gave me tofu and pork it tasted fishy,it was still ok,mark helped me. The potaotes,beef and salad were lovely. At one point she gave me a round pancake and said 'no octopus' i had to be polite,I bit it and ...
Northwards...
My trip is slowly coming to its end and I am heading back North again, in the direction of Tokyo - but with a couple of stops in between. Today I made my way to Osaka, Japan's third largest city (or second largest, depending on whether you count Yokohama as a separate city or add it together with Tokyo). But since I have seen quite enough of Japanese cities already - and they don't differ that much - I decided to make a stop in the countryside in between. So I got off ...
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