Hotel ISAGO Kobe

... 10 minuutin päähän Kiotoon. Ja näin tehtiin.

Kiidettiin siis hirmu kyytiä Nagoyaan asti, jossa hypättiin ulos ja alettiin miettimään, että mitäs nyt sitten? Aseman näytöllä luki, että juuri on lähdössä juna Takaymaan, joten ei kun äkkiä ovesta sisään ja matkaan. Junan hurjasta diesel-murinasta jo kuuli, että nyt ollaankin sitten lähdössä hiukan erilaisille reiteille. Sen verran ymmärrettiin Japanilaista kuulutusta, että matka-aika Takaymaan on yli 3 tuntia ...

... mitään ihmeempiä suunnitelmia, niin tehtiin pikapäätös suunnata Kobeen katsomaan Lumiere valoteosta, jota on paljon mainostettu joka puolella Japania. Kobe Lumiere on muistomerkki vuoden 1995 maanjäristyksen uhreille ja se järjestetään aina joulukuussa. Vuoden 1995 maanjäristyksen uhreja oli kaiken kaikkiaan melkein 6500 ja aineelliset vahingot aivan järjettömiä, että mistään pikkujutusta ei ollut kysymys.

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... that would result from it! We did eventually catch our train back to Kobe, and in the meantime Bridget opted not to wander away from Eben and me anymore, for fear of any more embarrassing escalator injuries. One final train ride later and we were back in Kobe, and could see the lights of the MV Explorer calling us home. All in all, I'd say the Japlan worked! More soon - Love, Christie P.S. It has now been confirmed: Japanese people really DO toss up the peace sign in all of their picture poses!

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... think i can write more - i'm getting hungry! from there as i said we went to koya san i wrote too much and time is late so i'll keep writing tomarow with lots of love! i miss all of you mack my darling! toota the only female cousin ever[= dan chan my and only love which i miss soooo much my lovely familly allways letting me annoy them even from here and to all my lovely friends and dan chan's mother i stoped writing specific miss you cause i'm really tire but i miss all of you two!

... wonderful and the city looked pretty nice, although we didn't get to see enough of it. Once we got back to Kobe it was pretty late but we still managed to go out for one last night in Japan. There was no way we could stay in considering this was our last night to really party before beings at sea for 9 days then in Hawaii for one and back at sea for another 8 days. This is going to be the longest, toughest stretch. I have a feeling a lot of people ...

... 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 just as they were shutting up. One of the reasons for the return to Kansai was that I had just found out that John and Gelsomina (my old teaching mates from the days in Sevilla, Spain) were living in Okamoto near Kobe ...

... with their private taxi driver, and we travelled together to 2 more temples in the area. At the end, they even gave me a ride back to my hotel - 30 minutes away. They were very sweet but Mrs. Haruta did all the talking because her English was much better. The next day I started off at Ginkakuji temple (silver pavilion). I wasn't all that impressed with the temple itself but really enjoyed the ...

... setting nature and booming trade made Kobe a very popular place and, despite suffering heavy bombing during World War II, by the 1960s the city was bursting out of its narrow stretch of land between the mountains and the sea. A solution to this issue was found by levelling the hills and dumping the rubble into the sea, creating Port & Rokko Islands in the bay. Life went on as normal until 5.46am on January 17th, 1995, when a devastating earthquake struck ...

... apt. while i`m up there i hear police sirens. i look out my window and there are two patrol cars outside. WHOOPS! so just to see what i did, i changed my clothes(as if that would change my appearance enough in case there was a security camera) and took the elevator downstairs. as i come out two officers start asking me questions to which i just reply "gomennesai. nihongo hanasemasen!" which means i don`t speak japanese. later i realize that i`m a dork ...