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About the tai sea bream.97 views
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White stork landing in the paddy during feeding time.97 views
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Two Oriental white storks on a nesting platform. Each nesting platform has a video camera monitoring it 24/7 especially during the egg-laying and hatching season in spring.97 viewsThe park is likely crowded during this time until the babies leave the nest in June/July.
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Study's bay window96 views
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Sherlock Holmes cloak and hat96 views
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One hotel guest escaped by using bed sheets as a rope.96 views
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Houses along the train tracks in Ashiya. Basically, Japanese-style homes with heavy tile roofs collapsed easily, while concrete homes withstood the quake better.96 views
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When you look at these toppled homes, you cannot help but think that they do look flimsy with thin walls. The problem is, such cheaply-made homes are very common in Japan.96 views
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The tuna is 2.9 meters long weighing 280 kg. About the same as two sumo wrestlers.96 views
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Fuku-zasa branches cost 1000 or 3000 yen.96 views
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White stork mail box at Oriental White Stork Park in Toyooka, Hyogo.96 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie art museum95 views
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Bus for Ashiya Station, the furthest that trains could go at the time. Trains weren't running within Kobe.95 views
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Entering Nishinomiya Shrine at the Omote Daimon Gate, usually called Akamon Gate. 西宮神社表大門 通称赤門95 views
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Along the way, there was a place where you could throw away your old Ebisu decorations.95 views
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People on the left are heading for the shrine, while people on the right are leaving.95 views
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Exiting Nishinomiya Shrine.95 views
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View from Kitano Tenman Shrine94 views
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Kitano Foreigners Club 北野外国人倶楽部94 views
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Vending machine94 views
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A building owner stands by her destroyed building.94 views
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Water station94 views
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The emergency stairway got torn off this building whose first floor got crushed.94 views
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The famous scene of the expressway collapsed on its side was completely gone 10 days after the quake. They had cleared the collapsed section (about 600 meters) of the road.94 views
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Wash basin to purify yourself. Few people stopped here.94 views
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Entering the Nishinomiya Shrine's Haiden Hall.94 views
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The Oriental white stork is a big, beautiful bird often mistaken as the Japanese crane. Wingspan is 2 meters.94 views
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Grey herons also drop by, but they are always fighting each other.94 views
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Dutch House93 views
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Ashiya Station platform.93 views
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This house stood firm, while its neighbor collapsed.93 views
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But we got nearer and nearer so it wasn't so bad and it wasn't taking forever.93 views
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Fruits and vegetable offerings from the local produce cooperative.93 views
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Nishinomiya Shrine's 300-yen omikuji comes with a cute tai (sea bream).93 views
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Very narrow path back to the station.93 views
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Toyooka was where the last living Oriental white stork in Japan died in 1986. Pesticides in rice paddies (where they feed) and other environmental problems caused their demise.93 views
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Feeding time for the storks also attracts unwanted birds like black kites. They swoop in and steal a fish, then don't come back.93 views
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View from Weathercock House92 views
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Line for the bus headed for Ashiya Station.92 views
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The tradition is to stick on coins on the tuna.92 views
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Ebisu decorations92 views
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Kinosaki Onsen manhole in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.92 views
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Inside Yamate Hachibankan 山手八番館91 views
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Rolls Royce91 views
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Garden outside British House91 views
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Weathercock House, built in 1909, withstood the quake.91 views
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They stuffed coins in every crack and crevice of the fish. I wonder who's gonna eat the fish afterward.91 views
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Hyakudayu Shrine91 views
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Here's the cheap 100-yen omikuji line, much longer than the one for the 300-yen omikuji.91 views
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Kitano Tenman Shrine90 views
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Austria90 views
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French House90 views
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Haiden hall up ahead. Behind it is the Honden main hall.90 views
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Offering of octopus (tako).90 views
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Former Chinese Consulate 旧中国領事館(旧チン邸)89 views
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The collapsed expressway was so embarrassing that they made it a priority to clear it ASAP.89 views
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Sacred dancer.89 views
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Nishinomiya Shrine maiden selling Fuku-zasa tree branches for Toka Ebisu. I was disappointed that the branches were plastic and all the decorations were already on them.89 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie 88 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie 88 views
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Yamate Hachibankan 山手八番館88 views
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Inside British House88 views
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Sign saying they are okay.88 views
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Truck carrying relief goods.88 views
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Nishinomiya Shrine worships a god named Hiruko (蛭子), also known as Ebisu, one of the Seven Gods of Fortune. Ebisu is regarded as the god of fishermen and good fortune depicted as a rotund, bald man holding a tai sea bream.88 views
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About the upside down kadomatsu.88 views
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Exiting the Honden.88 views
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Homusubi Shrine88 views
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About Hyakudayu Shrine.88 views
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Omikuji88 views
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Study87 views
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Bed87 views
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Kobe Kitano Art Museum87 views
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Inside Rhine House87 views
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Something they needed the most was torn off the building. If you live in a high-rise building in Japan, have ropes ready in your veranda in case your stairway is destroyed like this.87 views
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It's a stop-and-go process.87 views
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After passing through the Haiden, there's the Honden main worship hall, the shrine's main building.87 views
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The Honden had this narrow but long offertory box. Surprisingly small for a huge occasion as this.87 views
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Shinmei Shrine87 views
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Manhole with Shinkoro Clock Tower design in Izushi, Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.87 views
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Kitano Foreigners Club 北野外国人倶楽部(旧ブリューガー邸)86 views
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Inside former Chinese Consulate86 views
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Kitano-dori road 北野通り86 views
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Largest head in the house, buffalo86 views
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About Homusubi Shrine.86 views
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Top floor gives a good view of Kobe.85 views
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A makeshift altar placed on the collapsed home. Someone died here. By the time I visited, most of the trapped people had been rescued.85 views
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They also waved sacred staffs over our heads as we entered the Haiden.85 views
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Tai sea bream display case.85 views
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Tai sea bream pair.85 views
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Smaller shrines in Nishinomiya Shrine.85 views
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Pay a fee to enter this little hall to be blessed with a sacred dance.85 views
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Full of big game animals.84 views
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Not a good idea to live in a house standing right next to another building.84 views
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Scene after you exit the Honden.84 views
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Ema tablets.84 views
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Ema tablets at Nishinomiya Shrine.84 views
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Proceed further to see more vendors.84 views
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Fuku-zasa tree branches for prosperity and good fortune sold here.84 views
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Compared to Imamiya Shrine, they weren't so busy selling fuku-zasa branches.84 views
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The shrine also had numerous stalls selling Ebisu decorations.84 views
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Bathroom83 views
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Another distinct pattern was buildings on stilts easily collapsing.83 views
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Kobe Port Emigrant Ship Boarding Monument. 神戸港移民船乗船記念碑83 views
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Manhole with Shinkoro Clock Tower design in Izushi, Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.83 views
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Only the chimney broke off atop the Weathercock House. The inside is a different story.82 views
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Nishinomiya Shrine's Haiden Hall. It took about 30 min. to get here from Akamon Gate.82 views
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Way home82 views
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House of Horros amusement even.82 views
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Glassware by Rene Lalique81 views
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Japanese emigrant family going to South America. "From Kobe to the World"81 views
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Kobe manhole81 views
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Another Kobe manhole81 views
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Leaving the shrine was on a narrow, long path.80 views
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Collapsed 1st floor of an apt. building. I don't recommend living on the 1st floor of any building in Japan.79 views
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Sifting through the rubble.79 views
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Kobe Luminarie's Galleria Coperta (ガレリアコペルタ). This road is lined with luxury brand shops. 79 views
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In the Kitano area where there are many Western-style homes, the damage was not so apparent. But the interior sustained damage. None of the buildings collapsed though.78 views
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House covered by a blue tarp to protect against rain.77 views
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Vending machine with Oriental white stork design motif at JR Toyooka Station.77 views
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Kobe Luminarie's Frontone (フロントーネ) in Dec. 2018.76 views
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Flanked by twin Pisa-like towers, the center had the Cassa Armonica (カッサ・アルモニカ), a bandstand used as a place where people could toss money.76 views
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Boxes of food (biscuits).75 views
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At least they recovered some things.75 views
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On Caban Street, this drink vending machine designed like a bag. Toyooka, Hyogo.75 views
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Sign says, "Keep our town beautiful."72 views
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Love Toyooka's bag bus.68 views
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Onsenji Temple's Tahoto pagoda.67 views
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Yanagi-yu public bath in Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka, Hyogo. "Yanagi" means willow tree. The third public bath I've seen (but didn't enter). Open 3:00 pm–11:00 pm, closed. Thu. 柳湯63 views
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Onsenji Temple. Enter the temple here. Onsenji belongs to the Koyasan Shingon Buddhist sect. It worships an 11-face Kannon statue. Founded in 738 by the priest Dochi, Onsenji Temple is regarded as Kinosaki Onsen's guardian. 温泉寺63 views本坊
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Izushi soba is famous for having cold soba served on five small plates. Dip the noodles in the broth while adding different garnishes like grated yam, onions, and raw egg. 出石そば60 views
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Ichinoyu, perhaps the most famous public bath in Kinosaki Onsen. Looks like a kabuki theater. 一の湯60 viewsToyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.
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Gosho-no-yu public bath in Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka, Hyogo. Looks palatial. (御所の湯).59 views
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Onsenji Temple's Hondo main hall. National Important Cultural Property. Photography is not allowed inside the temple. temple founder and priest Dochi (道智上人) is also the founder of Kinosaki Onsen hot spring. 59 views
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Lots of soba restaurants in Izushi. This lunch cost ¥870. You can also order more plates of noodles. The history of Izushi soba goes way back to the early 18th century when the local lord brought it from Nagano (Shinano soba). 出石そば58 views
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Airline with a plane donning an Oriental White Stork motif.58 views
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A symbol of Kobe, Kobe Port Tower is 108 meters high, designed like the tsuzumi taiko shoulder drum. 56 views
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Shinkoro Clock Tower in Izushi, Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture is one of Japan's oldest clock towers along with the Sapporo Clock Tower also built in 1881. 辰鼓楼56 views
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Bus stop shelter near Kou-no-Yu in Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka, Hyogo.53 views
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Spider web.53 views
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Kobe Port Tower52 views
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Caban Street's most prominent bag shop is this one called Artisan Avenue. The front has a woven basket motif. Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.52 views
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