Kobe Port Tower and Meriken Park 神戸ポートタワー・メリケンパーク
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Approaching Kobe Port Tower, built in 1963 on the fringe of the waterfront Meriken Park.
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A symbol of Kobe, Kobe Port Tower is 108 meters high, designed like the tsuzumi taiko shoulder drum.
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The tower's top five floors are lookout decks accessible by elevator.
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Kobe Port Tower
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Bottom of Kobe Port Tower.
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Kobe Port Tower pillar. Amazingly thin.
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Entrance to Kobe Port Tower.
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All the decks on Kobe Port Tower.
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Kobe Port Tower ticket window.
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1st floor of Kobe Port Tower.
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Kobe Port Tower top lookout deck.
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Views from Kobe Port Tower.
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View of Meriken Park, Kobe's waterfront park that includes Kobe Maritime Museum, South American emigration monument, outdoor sculptures, and the preserved dock that was damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995.
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View of Meriken Park from Kobe Port Tower.
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View of Meriken Park from Kobe Port Tower.
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Emigration monument at Meriken Park.
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View of Meriken Park from Kobe Port Tower.
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Kobe Port
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Kobe Mosiac
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Kobe Port
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Kobe Port Tower view of Kobe and Rokko mountains.
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View of Kobe and Rokko mountains from Kobe Port Tower.
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For photos
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Another lookout deck.
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Window looking down.
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Lower lookout deck.
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Restaurant includes this Kobe Port Tower rice.
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Restaurant inside Kobe Port Tower.
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Meriken Park
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Meriken Park also has this impressive monument of Japanese emigrants to South America. Built in April 2001 by local Brazilian organizations.
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Kobe Port Emigrant Ship Boarding Monument. 神戸港移民船乗船記念碑
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Japanese emigrant family going to South America. "From Kobe to the World"
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Kobe Port Emigrant Ship Boarding Monument
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Kobe Port Emigrant Ship Boarding Monument
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Kobe's emigrant history.
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BE KOBE
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About Meriken Pier.
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About Meriken Park.
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The pier that damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 has been retained as is.
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The pier that damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 has been retained as is.
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The pier that damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 has been retained as is.
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The pier that damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 has been retained as is.
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The pier that damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 has been retained as is.
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Nankinmachi is Kobe's Chinatown.
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Gate to Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown.
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Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown.
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Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown.
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Vending machines in Chinese.
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Phone booth at Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown.
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Trash talk
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Shopping arcade in Kobe.
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Kobe manhole
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Another Kobe manhole
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