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11:55:46
A stock picture of Chie looking at a map, somewhere in Kobe - outside Oishi station I think.
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12:11:37
A bridge, and I think that is the sea beyond.
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12:18:27
This was where we were coming to visit - the Sawanotsuru sakagura, now a museum.
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12:18:54
I never grow tired of pictures of these sake barrels.
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12:33:53
Chie and a giant rice cooker.
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12:34:18
Some other kind of tub thing.
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12:35:00
Me and a barrel - I love barrels!
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12:35:16
Some more barrels and stuff - taken by Chie.
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12:38:41
A model of a boat used to carry sake - you can see lots of little barrels on it.
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12:44:16
This is koji (or is it moromi?) - the sort of rice cake stuff used to make sake.
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13:10:46
This is me suffering a bit from the heat at Oishi, the station nearest to the Sawanotsuru sakagura.
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13:46:25
Me and Chie waiting for a table for lunch at a restaurant called Al Centro in the JR Sannomiya station.
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13:51:34
The decor was quite swanky inside - Kobe is famous for being fashionable, and I'm assuming this is an example of this phenomenon.
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13:55:04
Chie and our respective lunches, very nice too.
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14:20:18
Me attempting to melt a large block of ice with my finger, as you do.
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14:20:28
The bloke in the red outfit here was emptying out the water, created by people trying to melt these blocks of ice - what a job!
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14:25:00
Another picture of Chie looking at a map, in Sannomiyacho.
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14:33:28
Kobe's Chinatown!
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14:33:33
Another picture of me at the entrance to Chinatown.
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14:38:31
Chie amidst the bustling main street in Chinatown.
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15:18:47
This is taken from the top (24th floor) of Kobe's city hall building, from where there are some great views out over Kobe.
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15:18:58
For some reason the colour was a bit funny here - perhaps because of the glass, or perhaps the lighting inside the building.... or maybe just the heat...?
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15:19:43
More views out over Kobe...
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15:20:00
...and more - and look some mountains in the distance.
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15:21:02
When in Seattle, one of my taxi drivers had mentioned Seattle was twinned with Kobe or something - a little display case in the city hall seemed to confirm this!
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15:21:13
It's an odd coincidence - I was standing at the foot of the Space Needle just five days earlier!
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15:22:02
More views from the other side of the city hall.
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15:22:12
...and yet more.
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15:58:35
A random picture of a busy intersection next to Sannomiya station in Kobe.
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16:28:29
We'd decided to get the bus back to Hiroshima to save money - I was surprised to find a very good coach service goes direct from Kobe (Sannomiya) to Hiroshima, without stopping anywhere else. It takes twice as long as the shinkansen, but only costs half as much...
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16:45:33
The view from the coach not long after we left the coach station. Note the big stone fish.
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16:45:44
A not-that-grat picture of a famous Kobe landmark - the Port Tower - obscured by a couple of roads.
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