Kobe

Kobe is a very nicely located city sandwiched between the mountains and the ocean. We mostly walked around Kobe, through some of its shopping and Chinatown. Chinatown is not impressive if you compare it to the ones in Toronto, NY or SF. It is still neat because they all operate differently. We then walked through the Harbour area where there are still massive chunks of concrete left over on purpose after the earthquate in order for people to see the damage. These are in the water. And they are building anothe artificial island to put an airport on it. There are already one or two but of course they need another one and what better way to get more space than to move a mountain !