Gosho Bessho Kobe
958 Arima-cho, Kita-ku Kobe, Hyogo, Kinki, 651-1401, Japan
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Kyoto ... So Refined
... station. Akagi-San had brought the Blurb foto album we had made of the Pittsburgh to DC trip and wanted us to sign it.(see Cycling the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Towpath at www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1215887) We reminisced a lot about the great trips we all had made together as we made a brief ride on the local train from Kyoto to Uji station.
During the gloomy rainy season ...
On par
... i was going to have a steak for lunch. lovely beef, something that we have at home quite often. As beef is a rarity in Asia i had been missing (and craving) it for some time. not today! with a birthday in a week i had decided to get my monumental meal early and partake in what is renowned all over the world. Kobe beef. mmmm!
as the restaurant didn't open for lunch until 11am, i had decided to go to Minoh in the morning as it had a ...
The slow boat to Osaka, Japan
... gave us some interesting insights into our next destination and tested out English words on us; his latest word was 'incandescently' Wow!
Come morning we had crossed the East China Sea and were nearing Japan's islands. The wind was a Force 4 south-easterly, but the sea was smooth and deep blue. We saw a big brown turtle diving away from the ship's wake, flying fish and large sea-birds diving ...
INTERNATIONAL KOBE NESTLES NICELY NEAR THE SEA
... wealthy foreign traders that made Kobe Japan’s international port town in the 19th Century, have been lovingly restored and offered spectacular views of the magnificent harbor.
The climb wasn’t bad and the hills surprisingly close, making me think that Kobe couldn’t grow much but probably instead, hugged the coastline. Still, it’s not very big, perhaps due to the after-effects of the massive 1995 earthquake which brought home to ...


