Toyofuku Kobe

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Takaisin Osakassa oltiin viimein kello 20.30 aikoihin ja käytiin vielä nopeasti pyörähtämässä Osakan-aseman lähellä olevissa valtavissa kaupoissa, etsimässä hiukan kaikenlaista tavaraa jatkoa varten. Nyt on pakko alkaa latautua jo tulevaan...

Jaahas ja tästä alkaa nyt todellinen humuviikonloppu! Tiedossa on kolme päivää silkkaa juhlaa, joten päivityksissä saattaa esiintyä pieniä viivästyksiä... :-)

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... of vegetable, shrimp, meat, fish, etc. It was delicious!! I am still shocked that none of us got food poisoning from cooking all our own raw meat. And the fact that we had to do this entirely with chopsticks certainly did not slow us down one bit. That was surely the best meal any of us had in Japan. After dinner we set back out into Osaka once more, and made a beeline to the nearest Karaoke bar. Let's just say that we'd had enough to eat and drink that it didn't really ...

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... combined with fresh deli mustard (delicious!), sea salt (not so good), and several others. The meat melted in our mouth. This place was by far the best steak we have ever eaten in our lives!! But a meal is not a meal with out dessert and that was also wonderful. There ins't much to do in Kobe, but it is worth paying for a true meal of Kobe beef. As an FYI, it won't be cheap! That wasn't the only ...

... I thought that since this was such a special meal, I didn't want to save on the price, so I chose a set menu meal with 3 starters, a 250g sirloin steak, soup, rice and dessert. At the end I thought I was going to die. I felt like the guy in Monty Pythons "The meaning of life" when they force that last bit of tongue down him, I was ready to burst. But it was worth it, and it's an experience I will long remember. Today's Video: VideoBlog

Kobe. This is where we met up with Yoshiko again and we went to Harima-cho to stay with her parents for a few days. My sister, Ali, was on the JET programme a few years ago and she lived in Harima-cho for a year and got very friendly with Yoshiko and her family. Yoshiko then came to Portobello and lived with my parents for 6 months - some of you might remember her. So this is how we know Yoshiko. It was great to see how Japanese really live. Yoshikos mum ...

... buy, buy!! And the people, my God, the hoards of people! Picture Chadstone at 6 pm on December 23rd, double that, and you will get the idea. I was too overwhelmed by the number of shops to do any serious shopping, but I did buy a black v-neck jumper for 800 yen, which turned out to be too small anyway. Called it quits, fought my way through the human traffic jam, and gratefully returned to the comparatively peaceful metropolis of Kobe.

... girl from the HK train), she is in town and we might meet up tomorrow so maybe she will be able to guide me a little. My first impressions of Japan are a bit strange, the people seem very quiet and reserved, the place is clean and there is technology everywhere, even the toilet has all these weird buttons on it (see pic), I have talked to many people about staying in a Capsule hotel and to be honest this room is about as capsulated as I'd want to get, space is obviously a major issue here.

Week 11 (1.2 - 1.8.03) - Still feeling kinda sick, but decided I had to get out and enjoy my time off work. I went with Nick and Hajemi on a little day trip to Kobe. We went o Rokko Mountain and Rokko Island. Both spots are beautiful...Kobe is really nice with the bay on one side and mountains on the other. After hanging out there we go to Spa World in Osaka, which I think is going to be my first onsen (hot spring) experience in Japan, but the place is really more like a small family ...