Scenes from Kobe Chinatown, May 2025
If you look at the usual Kobe itinerary, you start from Sannomiya, go up to the Ijinkan district and come back down, then pass through Chinatown and do a loop around the harbor and Meriken Park. So… afte…
If you look at the usual Kobe itinerary, you start from Sannomiya, go up to the Ijinkan district and come back down, then pass through Chinatown and do a loop around the harbor and Meriken Park. So… afte…
Isuzu Bakery holds some memories for me. It has been in business in Kobe for that long, and it has stayed popular the whole time. Looking at it now, there are surely plenty of better bakeries, but it is still …
After going around the Ijinkan district I came back to Sannomiya, but I was a bit too tired to move on to the next item on the itinerary, so I stopped by TOOTH TOOTH. At first glance it looked like a great pla…
After doing a loop of the places you can visit for free, I went to the ones that charge admission. The English House You can do Sherlock Holmes cosplay here. The set is done pretty well. Whisky bar So they h…
After passing through Sannomiya and having a light lunch at Quarto, I stopped by the Ijinkan. Well… it’s a very typical Kobe sightseeing route. Post box They still keep things like this around. Wh…
Kobe is a place I used to visit really often, and I have all sorts of memories here. But coming back after a long while, it has developed a bit. There’s a new aquarium too. Places like this need the occa…
Kobe’s Kitano Hotel is famous for something like “the world’s best breakfast”… It’s so famous that getting a hotel reservation isn’t easy… And I also find myself…
Quarto is an Italian restaurant in Sannomiya, Kobe. It’s a fair way from the main Sannomiya street, though. A restaurant in a spot like this? I wondered… But wherever it is, people clearly know abo…
It had been a while since my last trip to Japan. Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle has opened a shop at Incheon Airport.. Spirits from Baekkyung Distillery They made it into the duty-free shop. Nice to see they se…
Hard at work farming oysters. Anker’s USB-A to USB-C adapter This turns out to be surprisingly useful: it lets you hang USB-A cables, like the ones on a mouse or a keyboard, off a USB-C hub. Hubs that …
Koikeya Pride Potato, Maboroshi no Imo Imagane Danshaku It comes out every winter, and since it showed up again this year I picked one up. It tastes good. Cup Noodle Winter Limited Shiro Miso A bit too sweet…
Fish at the local supermarket At 500 yen a plate, that is not a bad price. Next to it they were selling torafugu for 1,290 yen, which had me wondering whether it is really okay to eat a luxury ingredient at t…