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…
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…
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…
Coming into the airport at night, well.. there isn’t much to see. The vibe Not much worth buying. Inside There weren’t many whiskies worth buying anyway. Amazing Cambodia.. But the brands here d…
No matter what kind of trip it is, I think the quality of the trip changes depending on whether or not you have contact with locals. This time I was really lucky again to meet a wonderful local, and on their r…
I snapped a variety of scenes while walking around the streets. Sky Mangosteen and longan Longan is a bit of a hassle to peel, but it’s delicious. It has a magic that keeps you reaching for more. Mango…
I ended up going to Cambodia again. After the last failure, I prepared with the idea that this time I’d do it properly… but this time wasn’t perfect either, and the trip after that saw some m…
There are direct flights to Cambodia on Korean Air and Asiana, but both leave Korea in the afternoon and arrive in the evening, and then the same plane departs at night and lands in the morning. So you’r…
I went back to the Rosewood hotel. A Chinese restaurant I photographed on the way There are quite a lot of Chinese restaurants around. A shot taken while walking down the street Not sure if that’s a sc…
Once again I’m just posting the scenes I shot while wandering around here and there. It was a business trip, so I hardly took any photos of tourist spots; instead I’m posting neighborhood shots. A …