Japanese lessons - totally over my head. A bit sick. KFC.
Back to wake up Jakub. Decided to head up on the cable car to Mt Rokko to see the sights, and left the house without really knowing where we were going or what we were going to see.
First stop Sannomiya, where we went to the shinto shrine there. Sam and I had walked past it a few times, but never been in. Was a cute little shrine, and obviously lots of people use it for their day-to-day Shinto needs. Lots of really cool prayers (?) on wooden boards up around the place.
I also had my first game of pachinko. I think it will be my only game of pachinko. We just wanted to show Jakub how the game worked, and we really didn't know what was happening at all. Here is a picture of the machine - of course it had to be Evangelion-themed.
After the shrine in Sannomiya, we headed up and out of the parts of Kobe that we are familiar with. We caught a Hankyu train up to Rokko station, then a bus further up the hill, and then caught a cable car/train thing up to the top of Mt Rokko. Mt Rokko is supposed to have one of the 3 best night views in Japan, so we timed it to get up to the top of the mountain about 45 minutes before sunset so we could try to see Kobe/Osaka in the daylight and at night.
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| There was an art festival on, so there were cool light displays around the place. |
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| The cable car to take us to the top of Mt. Rokko. |
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| Looking out over Kobe from the top of the cable car. |
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| Kobe! |
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| More cool art displays |
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| View towards Osaka from the Rokko Garden Terrace. |
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| Inside the cool dome observatory thing that was lit up for the art festival. |
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| Dome thing from the outside. |
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| Kobe/Osaka at night. |
We ended up going for late sushi train after our night up Rokko. Up the mountain, it was actually cold. I only had a t-shirt on, and I actually needed a jumper. Woo, autumn is here!
Food Highlight of the Day: Today's dinner was sushi. My favourite sushi is plain old maguro zushi (tuna sashimi on rice), and I enjoyed every bite of it during dinner.
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