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Along the way, there was a place where you could throw away your old Ebisu decorations.101 views
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Wash basin to purify yourself. Few people stopped here.101 views
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Exiting Nishinomiya Shrine.101 views
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White stork mail box at Oriental White Stork Park in Toyooka, Hyogo.101 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.101 viewsThe park is likely crowded during this time until the babies leave the nest in June/July.
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Nihon Seimei Bldg. collapsed at the middle.100 views
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Store in shambles.100 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.100 views
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Entering the Nishinomiya Shrine's Haiden Hall.100 views
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Fruits and vegetable offerings from the local produce cooperative.100 views
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Nishinomiya Shrine's 300-yen omikuji comes with a cute tai (sea bream).100 views
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Study's bay window99 views
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A mess inside a restaurant.99 views
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Backstreet destruction.99 views
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But we got nearer and nearer so it wasn't so bad and it wasn't taking forever.99 views
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Hyakudayu Shrine98 views
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Very narrow path back to the station.98 views
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View from Kitano Tenman Shrine97 views
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Kitano Foreigners Club 北野外国人倶楽部97 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.97 views
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The tradition is to stick on coins on the tuna.97 views
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Offering of octopus (tako).97 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.97 views
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Here's the cheap 100-yen omikuji line, much longer than the one for the 300-yen omikuji.97 views
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Ebisu decorations97 views
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Grey herons also drop by, but they are always fighting each other.97 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie art museum96 views
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One hotel guest escaped by using bed sheets as a rope.96 views
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A building owner stands by her destroyed building.96 views
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Bus for Ashiya Station, the furthest that trains could go at the time. Trains weren't running within Kobe.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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The emergency stairway got torn off this building whose first floor got crushed.96 views
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Haiden hall up ahead. Behind it is the Honden main hall.96 views
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The Oriental white stork is a big, beautiful bird often mistaken as the Japanese crane. Wingspan is 2 meters.96 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.96 views
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View from Weathercock House95 views
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Dutch House95 views
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Vending machine95 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.95 views
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About the upside down kadomatsu.95 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.95 views
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Sacred dancer.95 views
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Omikuji95 views
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Kinosaki Onsen manhole in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.95 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.95 views
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French House94 views
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Water station94 views
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Line for the bus headed for Ashiya Station.94 views
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This house stood firm, while its neighbor collapsed.94 views
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After passing through the Haiden, there's the Honden main worship hall, the shrine's main building.94 views
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About Hyakudayu Shrine.94 views
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Rolls Royce93 views
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Weathercock House, built in 1909, withstood the quake.93 views
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Ashiya Station platform.93 views
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It's a stop-and-go process.93 views
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Homusubi Shrine93 views
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Shinmei Shrine93 views
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Inside Yamate Hachibankan 山手八番館92 views
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Former Chinese Consulate 旧中国領事館（旧チン邸）92 views
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Garden outside British House92 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.92 views
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The Honden had this narrow but long offertory box. Surprisingly small for a huge occasion as this.92 views
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Exiting the Honden.92 views
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Tai sea bream display case.92 views
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Proceed further to see more vendors.92 views
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Kitano Tenman Shrine91 views
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Sign saying they are okay.91 views
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They also waved sacred staffs over our heads as we entered the Haiden.91 views
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Tai sea bream pair.91 views
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Pay a fee to enter this little hall to be blessed with a sacred dance.91 views
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Fuku-zasa tree branches for prosperity and good fortune sold here.91 views
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Compared to Imamiya Shrine, they weren't so busy selling fuku-zasa branches.91 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie 90 views
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Yamate Hachibankan 山手八番館90 views
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Bed90 views
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Inside British House90 views
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Truck carrying relief goods.90 views
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About Homusubi Shrine.90 views
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Manhole with Shinkoro Clock Tower design in Izushi, Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.90 views
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Study89 views
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Inside Uroko no Ie 89 views
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Kitano Foreigners Club 北野外国人倶楽部（旧ブリューガー邸）89 views
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Kobe Kitano Art Museum89 views
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Inside Rhine House89 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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Scene after you exit the Honden.89 views
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Ema tablets.89 views
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Ema tablets at Nishinomiya Shrine.89 views
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Smaller shrines in Nishinomiya Shrine.89 views
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The shrine also had numerous stalls selling Ebisu decorations.89 views
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Top floor gives a good view of Kobe.88 views
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Inside former Chinese Consulate88 views
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Kitano-dori road 北野通り88 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.88 views
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Largest head in the house, buffalo87 views
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Not a good idea to live in a house standing right next to another building.87 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.87 views
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Nishinomiya Shrine's Haiden Hall. It took about 30 min. to get here from Akamon Gate.87 views
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Leaving the shrine was on a narrow, long path.87 views
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Manhole with Shinkoro Clock Tower design in Izushi, Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.87 views
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Way home86 views
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House of Horros amusement even.86 views
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Full of big game animals.85 views
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Kobe Port Emigrant Ship Boarding Monument. 神戸港移民船乗船記念碑85 views
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Another distinct pattern was buildings on stilts easily collapsing.84 views
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Another Kobe manhole84 views
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Glassware by Rene Lalique83 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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Japanese emigrant family going to South America. "From Kobe to the World"82 views
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Kobe manhole82 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.81 views
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Sifting through the rubble.81 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. 80 views
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Vending machine with Oriental white stork design motif at JR Toyooka Station.80 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.79 views
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House covered by a blue tarp to protect against rain.79 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.79 views
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Kobe Luminarie's Frontone (フロントーネ) in Dec. 2018.78 views
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On Caban Street, this drink vending machine designed like a bag. Toyooka, Hyogo.77 views
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Boxes of food (biscuits).76 views
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At least they recovered some things.75 views
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Sign says, "Keep our town beautiful."73 views
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Love Toyooka's bag bus.73 views
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Onsenji Temple's Tahoto pagoda.69 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65 views
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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64 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64 views本坊
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Ichinoyu, perhaps the most famous public bath in Kinosaki Onsen. Looks like a kabuki theater. 一の湯63 viewsToyooka, Hyogo Prefecture.
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Airline with a plane donning an Oriental White Stork motif.62 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61 views
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Gosho-no-yu public bath in Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka, Hyogo. Looks palatial. (御所の湯).60 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. 60 views
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A symbol of Kobe, Kobe Port Tower is 108 meters high, designed like the tsuzumi taiko shoulder drum. 58 views
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Eirakukan's rotating kabuki stage.57 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57 views
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Spider web.57 views
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You can also go underneath the stage and see the revolving stage. It's rotated by hand. Wow neat, how often can you see something like this?56 views
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The Oriental white stork has black and white wings and a black bill.56 views
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