More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  The most interesting piece of architecture in Kobe, to my mind at least, is the Kobe Maritime Museum located on the waterfront in Meriken ...

  Meriken Park is a waterfront park in Kobe that is a major tourist attraction because of the many tourist sites in the vicinity. The BE KOB...

  As far as I can tell, Kobe only really has one Japanese garden of note, the Sorakuen. Constructed during the end of the 19th century and t...

The Kobe Earthquake Museum is the short version of The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial Museum which is part of the Disaster Re...

One of the features of Tadao Ando's Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is the exterior spiral staircase. I posted some other p...

The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe is usually pictured from the sea front, but the entrance is at the back of ther building o...