Mountain Lodge French: Auberge Comme Chinois
Behind Kobe there’s a mountain called Mt. Rokko, and word is that the view, with all of Kobe spread out below, is fantastic. The night view in particular is supposed to be stunning, and I’d been to…
Behind Kobe there’s a mountain called Mt. Rokko, and word is that the view, with all of Kobe spread out below, is fantastic. The night view in particular is supposed to be stunning, and I’d been to…
Like most engineering types, I’m not someone who cares much about fashion, and since I always wear a suit at work, apart from T-shirts I only buy casual clothes once every few years, when I’ve run …
The Sanda outlet mall, which I introduced here once before, has been renovated. They doubled the number of stores and on top of that ran a renovation sale, so people were pouring in from all over the country. …
From Ijinkan I head over to Chinatown. The sights worth seeing in Kobe are the Kitano area with the Ijinkan houses, the area around Sannomiya, and Nankinmachi (Chinatown) plus the area around Mosaic and Merike…
Since coming back from Korea my health has gone downhill and work has piled up, so I’ve hardly gone anywhere for fun or to eat out. After two weeks of that, I really felt like getting away somewhere. So …
My friend suggested that since we’d come all the way to Kobe, we really ought to try Kobe beef. Truth is, you don’t need to eat Kobe beef in Kobe. The cattle aren’t even raised in Kobe itself…
After lunch I headed to a dessert shop! But maybe because the dessert I’d had just before was so good, it didn’t wow me all that much. Est Royal 2eme: a Gascogne with apple and plum It’s a …
When you think of good food in Kobe, the first thing that comes to mind is the cluster of French restaurants in Kitano. These places, with that cute, polished Kobe sensibility showing in both the food and the …
Before catching the last shinkansen home from Kobe I was feeling a bit peckish, so I dropped by Shitenno Ramen near Sannomiya for a bowl. Shitenno Ramen started out in Osaka and is a well-known ramen shop all …
The Kobe posts are finally nearing the end… I only have about two months’ worth of posts left to put up -_-;; And yet I’m barely halfway through, so at this pace who knows when I’ll eve…
After leaving Igrek, I walk down the Sannomiya streets toward Chinatown. The whole point of today’s visit was to go to Henri Charpentier near Kobe Port. Well.. in the end I was pretty disappointed, since…
After spending an hour wandering around the Ijinkan district, I headed back to the Kitano Hotel in time for my reservation. A wedding was in full swing. Watching the young bride and groom and their guests all …