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Remembering the Great Hanshin earthquake
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 17 January 2012
17 years ago, a powerful earthquake stroke the city of Kobe and its surroundings. It was at the time the most powerful earthquake to hit Japan after the Great Kantō earthquake from 1923 and remained recorded in history as the Great Hanshin earthquake. 6434 people lost their lives, the majority of them in Kobe (4571).
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Kobe Aerial view
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 14 September 2011
Like most of the Japanese cities, Kobe looks great from above - I was amazed by this spectacular view from the 90-meters tall observatory of the Kobe Port Tower. The white steel-lace roof is the Kobe Maritime Museum and the park surrounding it is the waterfront Meriken Park. A fun fact, the name of the park, “Meriken", is a transformation of the word “American", dating from the Meiji period. The tall building on the left is the Hotel Okura and in the background you can see the Kobe Port Terminal and the red Kobe Bridge:
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Sightseeing Kobe, Chinatown
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 3 September 2011
In Kobe, south of Motomachi Station, you can visit one of the three Chinatowns from Japan (the other two are in Yokohama and Nagasaki), the Nankinmachi, “Nanking town".
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The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Museum in Kobe, Japan
Blog: MuseumChick - 3 January 2011
Happy New Year’s! For my first post of the New Year I wanted to do something new- a guest post from an e-friend living in Japan. Japan is a place that I have never been to and I’m hoping to go to one day (maybe even with Darcy in tow). So, when I started chatting [...]
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Kobe Luminarie, 25 Photos
Blog: Muza-chan's Gate to Japan - 1 December 2010
From December 2nd to 13th, in Kobe will take place the 16th edition of Kobe Luminarie light festival, an artistic event also known as “sculptures of light", commemorating the 6000 victims of the Great Hanshin earthquake from 1995.
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Kobe is for Beef. Sweet, Glorious, Expensive Beef
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 6 September 2010
Kobe, Japan is an interesting city. If you would drop me there without telling me where I was and no local signs or people walking around I would guess that I was in a place like London or Chicago - most definitely not Japan. Hello Kitty and Cartoon figures are all but missing and repl
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Rice Farming
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 5 August 2010
Playing with lizards found in the rice field We went rice farming in the mountains with Peace and Nature from Kobe. They had a violinist …
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Transport in Japan (outside the JR lines)
Blog: World Travel Blog - 22 November 2009
Japan isn’t a big country really, at least if you compare it with other destinations as China, India, USA or even my home country, Argentina. Despite that I think Japan has the most extensive transportation system I have ever seen, including trains, subways, metro, tram, busses, monorail, cable cars… and they are all linked to [...]
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Rokko Island – Kobe, Japan
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 14 November 2009
Rokkō Island is the second major artificial island in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Japan located in the southeast region at Port of Kobe.
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