Interesting places to visit (Kobe)

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This time I'm just sharing about the time I went Kobe. This was more of a gathering for me and my friends who are studying in the Kansai region. This trip was also made during the Golden Week since it's one of the few rare ocassion where everyone has a holiday at the same time.

Getting from Nara to Kobe was not really that hard but it took longer that expected. But situated in the middle of where all of our schools are, just the right spot for our gathering. All of us met up at JR Kobe Station and for a train station, it was huuuuge, enough to be a mall itself. Apparently it's called Umie and it's one of the main shopping complex around here. Needless to say, all of us took our time shopping there and gather back again in GODIVA

GODIVA, chocolate paradise

After that, we straight to probably what seems to be the must visit place in Kobe called Harborland. Just like any other harbour, you can see ferries around and lookout tower as well. Now that I think about it, that was probably the first ocean I've seen here in Japan.From here you can see the Kobe Port Tower, the icon of this place, right next to Kobe Maritime Museum. Didn't enter any of those two cus probably spent too much time at the mall.

 

You don't see many roads, nor car in Nara

 

Something you don't see everyday

Iconic watchtower

     After taking some pictures all around the all famous harbour, we took a trip to the much more packed street they called Kobe Nankanmachi AKA Kobe Chinatown. Well, technically I'm a Chinese but seeing my people's culture spread like butter even here, just makes me glad to be one (that feeling doesn't come often). And it is also here where we had our try on the famous Kobe beef eeeeeveryone has been talking about. The hype bout it makes it the wait in line more bearable. We had it in the form of burger since we just had our lunch there but that 1000 yen burger was worth the money. I'm not a big fan of beef myself but even I could tell that meat was definitely one of a kind.

rush hour?

even spiderman can't help it

Of course there were other delicacy that our senpai said were good such as pau (steamed buns) and whatnot but news came that a new cheese tart shop called Pablo just opened recently and as one of us ran heading there, the rest of us just follow suit. If GODIVA was the chocolate paradise, PABLO would be the cheesecake paradise, period. That was just good how the tarts was for me. Feeling the steamy cheese cream scorching my taste buds was just orgasmatic.

Next we took a break from eating, and took a few bus and train trips here and there looking for Mt. Rokko. Nothing extreme, just waited for a cable car at the foot of the mountain and after some smooth ride in about 10 minutes, there we were at the top of the Rokka mountain ranges. The view from above, just to put it short, is like a window to Kobe itself. (sorry as you've probably known, I'm a shitty photographer so can't really take a nice scenic view of it, will probably work on it in the future) But regardleass, the view from up there was phenomenal. Greenery surrounding the hills and up further you can see the city itself and also the ocean that stretches after that.

After that we just head back to the city and had our dinner there plus a few last shopping before we say our goodbyes to our friends whom we might not see again until summer break.

                              

Best place for ramen, Ichiran Ramen

 If I had to say something about Kobe, it's that unlike other areas i've been too, finding unusual stuff here might not be easy (Like the countless deer in Nara, or the bamboo forest in Kyoto) but you can bet that the simple things they have here, will blow you away. You can find beef burger all around the world but I doubt any of them holds a candle to Kobe's own beef. The scenery they have there, their food  etc have not dissapoint me so far.