Kobe

I went to Kobe for weekend. As Kobe is one of Japan’s major international ports, it was influenced by foreign country around the city. I couldn’t enjoy my trip last time because it was end of the March and pretty cold. In my opinion, the best season for traveling Kobe is end of April to May which is neither cold nor hot.



We took off at Sannomiya station and went to north part of the city. And we saw a big village which is filled of exotic sights, buildings, stores and restaurants. I couldn’t believe we were in Japan. I felt like I’m in one of the Europe country. It was amazing. Even “starbucks” were different. I think it was originally House but they just remodeled into the café so we would think like in the 19bcentury café. We went to Kitanomachi square which is located on the top of the hill. So we saw the view over the village and luckily we watched the guy playing performance.

And we walked the street and enjoyed the beautiful classical architectures.

 After that we went back to the station to go to the big shopping street which is kind of big such as Shinsaibashi.

After window-shopping for a while, we went to Chinatown. It was such a big town I’ve never seen.  It was so crowded so we couldn’t look around well but there were so many restaurants and people were eating outside it was kind of interesting.

And then we went to “Bay Area” to see the night view. Along the sea, there were Kobe tower, meriken park, small amusement park and Hotel and big shopping center ( which is called ‘mosaic’,). There were a lot of thing to see. We looked around and relaxed at the coffee shop near the sea and wait for night. It was even more beautiful at night. We took a lot of photos and we couldn’t even say any word because it was so amazing.

On the way to the station, we found a big department and we saw really nice illumination which was so pretty. It was very nice trip I went recently because it was my first time to travel by myself without Japanese or someone who can speak Japanese. So it means a lot for me. And it was nice trip ever.