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Since Jan. 2010 is the 15th anniversary of the Kobe earthquake that struck on Jan. 17, 1995, I decided to upload these photos for the first time. I visited Kobe 10 days after the killer quake struck. Had to take a hydrofoil from Osaka to reach Kobe.617 views
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Kitanozaka slope goes to the Kitano-cho area of Western homes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many are very well-preserved and open to the public. This one has Starbucks. 北野坂（奥に北野物語館）581 views
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I was amazed to see Mos Burger back in business so soon. It was another sign of a very progressive recovery.566 views
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Fukae Shopping Center522 views
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Earthquake tourists getting their picture taken.491 views
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Santica building near Sannomiya Station had a middle floor crushed. As I walked around the devastation, I could see common ways in which the buildings collapsed. High rise buildings commonly collapsed on a middle floor.483 views
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Weathercock House, built in 1909, is one of the main Western homes open to the public in Kobe's Kitano-cho. 旧トーマス住宅421 views
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Inside Weathercock House.421 views
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Inside Moegi no Yakata404 views
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Kobe City Hall buckled at the middle floor.404 views
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British House 英国館402 views
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Moegi no Yakata or Sharp residence 萌黄の館（シャープ住宅）399 views
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Nihon Seimei Bldg. collapsed at the middle, near Sannomiya Station. It's hard to imagine what would've happened if the quake struck during working hours with people working in this building.397 views
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Another major house is Uroko no Ie which has an art museum as well. 旧ハリヤー邸（うろこの家）395 views
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Ben's House394 views
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Kobe Port Emigrant Ship Boarding Monument. 神戸港移民船乗船記念碑386 views
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Animal rights activists will love this house.367 views
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Kobe Shimbun newspaper offices near Sannomiya Station was in shambles.364 views
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The Japanese tile roof makes the home top-heavy, making it more vulnerable to horizontal swaying and eventual toppling.363 views
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Kobe manhole357 views
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Japanese emigrant family going to South America. "From Kobe to the World"356 views
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Sherlock Holmes room in British House, Kobe Ijinkan339 views
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Hammack which Ben slept on.339 views
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Another Kobe manhole337 views
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A symbol of Kobe, Kobe Port Tower is 108 meters high, designed like the tsuzumi taiko shoulder drum. 335 views
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The main square in Kitano-cho. Most of the homes charge admission. It's cheaper to buy a set of tickets to see multiple homes. Most of the major homes have a ticket booth selling these ticket sets.333 views
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Sogo Dept. Store cracked vertically in the middle. This building was later torn down and replaced with a new dept. store building.331 views
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The expressway that supposed withstand such quakes collapsed. It was a major scandal. The shinkansen bullet train tracks also had broken concrete columns which revealed pieces of scrap wood mixed in. 330 views
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Tilted buildings near Sannomiya Station. It took only 15 sec. to wreak all this damage.329 views
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Kobe Port Tower328 views
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Phone booth at Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown.328 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.328 views
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No, my camera lens is not distorting this picture. That building is actually tilting a lot, but they still allowed traffic on the road below.320 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. 313 views
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Interesting contrast between buildings which fell and didn't fall.312 views
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In front of Sannomiya Station is Sogo Dept. Store.310 views
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So named because of a weathercock (rooster) on the spire.309 views
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Kobe Luminarie's Frontone (フロントーネ) in Dec. 2018.309 views
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The engineers said this would be strong enough, but they were dead wrong.308 views
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Distribution place for relief goods. Ten days after the earthquake, the initial fires, confusion, and pandemonium had subsided. It was pretty calm by then, but the damage was still visible.306 views
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Damage to Sannomiya Station building.305 views
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Hankyu Railways' Sannomiya Station being torn down.302 views
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Inside Rhine House299 views
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Near Kobe City Hall along Flower Road was this office building which had also collapsed at a middle floor.298 views
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Employees are removing merchandise from Sogo Dept. Store.298 views
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A mess inside a restaurant.298 views
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Kobe Port. Most of the people entering Kobe during this time were relatives and friends of Kobe residents, bringing relief goods.297 views
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Shop shutters along Ikuta Road are tilted due to the crushing weight.297 views
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I really felt sorry for the people who had just bought a house or condo with a 35-year mortgage and the house or condo was destroyed by the quake. They are stuck paying off the housing loan and also have to pay monthly rent at a new place.297 views
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The building next to Washington Hotel scraped against the hotel as it fell.294 views
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Sannomiya Station294 views
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Bottom of Kobe Port Tower.293 views
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Vending machine291 views
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Another common way in which buildings collapsed was the 1st floor giving way like this small hotel.290 views
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Fallen clock which stopped at the time of the earthquake.288 views
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Expressway pylon broken.287 views
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Crushed car286 views
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Crushed car284 views
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People eating yakisoba amid the rubble.282 views
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Ashiya Station platform.282 views
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This house stood firm, while its neighbor collapsed.282 views
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Sign says, "Keep our town beautiful."282 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.281 views
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Amid the rubble of a collapsed building, a yakisoba stall sold yakisoba noodles.280 views
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Store in shambles.279 views
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The collapsed expressway was so embarrassing that they made it a priority to clear it ASAP.278 views
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This Kitano area is also a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).277 views
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Austria277 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.275 views
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Ashiya Station274 views
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Kobe Center for Overseas Migration and Cultural Interaction was originally the National Emigration Center (国立移民収容所) where Japanese immigrants stayed for orientation before traveling mainly to South America (especially Brazil) by boat.273 viewsThe Emigration Center was used from 1928 to 1971 and it's Japan's only surviving building used for sending Japanese immigrants. Later renamed Kobe Emigrant Education Center and then Kobe Emigrant Assistance Center and Kobe Emigration Center (神戸移住センター).
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Window looking down.273 views
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The 1st floor is totally flattened.272 views
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Water station272 views
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French House271 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.271 views
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Approaching Kobe Port Tower, built in 1963 on the fringe of the waterfront Meriken Park.271 views
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Rhine House (free admission) 旧ドレウェル邸（ラインの館）270 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.269 views
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Jazz sculptures accent the Kitano-cho area.268 views
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Truck carrying relief goods.268 views
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The emergency stairway got torn off this building whose first floor got crushed.268 views
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Inside former Chinese Consulate267 views
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Sherlock Holmes cloak and hat267 views
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View from Kitano Tenman Shrine266 views
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Line for the bus headed for Ashiya Station.266 views
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Former Chinese Consulate 旧中国領事館（旧チン邸）265 views
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The next day, I again visited Kobe, this time by train to Ashiya Station. See gravestones overturned.265 views
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Crushed Audi.265 views
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Weathercock House, built in 1909, withstood the quake.264 views
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View from Weathercock House263 views
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Full of big game animals.263 views
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Collapsed shopping center near Ashiya Station. That's the 2nd floor which now looks like the 1st floor.263 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.263 views
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Kitano Tenman Shrine262 views
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Nihon Seimei Bldg. collapsed at the middle.262 views
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Backstreet destruction.262 views
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Kitano Foreigners Club 北野外国人倶楽部260 views
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Bed260 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.260 views
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Largest head in the house, buffalo258 views
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Kobe Port258 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie 257 views
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Garden outside British House257 views
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Bus for Ashiya Station, the furthest that trains could go at the time. Trains weren't running within Kobe.257 views
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Yamate Hachibankan 山手八番館256 views
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Kobe Kitano Art Museum256 views
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Study's bay window255 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie art museum255 views
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Kitano-dori road 北野通り254 views
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Kitano Foreigners Club 北野外国人倶楽部（旧ブリューガー邸）253 views
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Kobe Mosiac252 views
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Boxes of food (biscuits).251 views
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Another distinct pattern was buildings on stilts easily collapsing.251 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.251 views
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Rolls Royce250 views
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Sifting through the rubble.250 views
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A building owner stands by her destroyed building.249 views
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Inside Yamate Hachibankan 山手八番館247 views
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Not a good idea to live in a house standing right next to another building.247 views
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This was a Saturday, which happened to be the most crowded evening for the lights. About 559,000 people came to see Kobe Luminarie this Sat. evening. Even before 4:30 pm, the crowd starts near Motomachi Station.247 views
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Cracked Sogo Dept. Store in Sannomiya.246 views
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About Meriken Park.245 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie 244 views
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Inside British House244 views
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Glassware by Rene Lalique243 views
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Sign saying they are okay.242 views
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Only the chimney broke off atop the Weathercock House. The inside is a different story.242 views
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Nankinmachi is Kobe's Chinatown.242 views
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House covered by a blue tarp to protect against rain.240 views
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The pier that damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 has been retained as is.239 views
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Top floor gives a good view of Kobe.238 views
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One hotel guest escaped by using bed sheets as a rope.238 views
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Bathroom236 views
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The tower's top five floors are lookout decks accessible by elevator.235 views
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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 1995.235 views
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Study234 views
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Dutch House234 views
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Kobe Port Tower pillar. Amazingly thin.233 views
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