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 Meeting Friends In Kobe

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Kobe is a very hilly town since it is so close to the mountains. Like San Francisco, many of it's roads are very steep, in addition to being very narrow like most roads in Japan. It's a bit hard to walk up and down these things.

   
Miyako and Takako pose at the Denmark House. Kobe is a city with much European influence. French and Italian restaurants are everywhere and many houses with French, German, Italian, Dutch, British and other european styles still exist.   

If I remember correctly, this is a Netherland style building.

   
Since it was Cultural Pride day in Japan we got to watch a life Jazz show. This particular park had statues of Jazz musicians around.   

Kobe also has a decent Chinatown area. However, it's different from the Chinatowns I'm used to. The entire street is just full of Chinese food carts trying to sell all sorts of Chinese and Japanese goodies.

  
After Chinatown, we went to Kobe HarborLand where we took a boat ride into the harbor and got to see the industrial sea shore of Kobe. Here you can see the HarborLand ferris wheel.   

Here are some large ship yard construction cranes that are used to build tankers and cargo ships.

   
An Evergreen (Taiwanese company) freight ship docked for repairs.   

A picture of the world's longest span suspension bridge that connects Honshu (the main island of Japan) to Shikoku, the southwest island of Japan.

   
A fancy hotel built by the water in HarborLand.   

A really nice view of the Kobe Maritime Museum

   
The HarborLand tower. Not exactly sure what this is for, but apparently you can go to the top when it's open.   
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