Kobe City, like Himeji, is also a part of the Hyogo Prefecture. I just like the sound of Kobe (Bryant?) but I don’t know why. Anyway, I think we brought some of the rain from Himeji because we pretty much had a wet day. Nonetheless, the rains did not hinder us from doing our antics in the parks just for the lo-o-ove of traveling. ❤️
| Date | Place | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| April 29 | Airport Tour = Missed flight! |  |
| April 30 | Tokyo Tour Tokyo Prefecture |  |
| May 1 | Nikko Tour Tochigi Prefecture |  |
| May 2 | Mount Fuji Tour Shizuoka and Kanagawa Prefecture |  |
| May 3 | Osaka Tour Osaka Prefecture |  |
| May 4 AM | Todaiji Temple in Nara Nara Prefecture |  |
| May 4 PM | Kyoto Tour I Kyoto Prefecture |  |
| May 5 | Kyoto Tour II Kyoto Prefecture |  |
| May 6 AM | Himeji Tour Hyogo Prefecture |  |
| May 6 PM | Kobe Tour Hyogo Prefecture |  |
| May 7 | Hiroshima Tour Hiroshima Prefecture |  |
Places Visited
May 6, 2016
Tips and Notes
May 6, 2016
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
I love this bridge or maybe not just the bridge but the full picture that the scene provides. Without the other elements, it would not probably give the same impact as what we had already seen: the waters, bridge, park, historical structures, and the skies.
From the train station, we thought it was enough to view the bridge from there because that was the only target anyway. After walking a little further, we found a road that leads to the shore and we followed it and that gave the most spectacular view of the long stretch of steel.
If we love a place, we will stay there to our heart’s content. And this is what the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge did to us no matter how the rains and temperature tried to distract us. Nothing can stop us now.
For our protection against the rain, there was an empty cottage beside the park and we made that as our station. Whenever one of us goes to the grasses for a photo, he or she quickly flashes his or her biggest grin and runs back to the cottage as soon as the photo-taker does the thumbs-up sign indicating that the photo taken was good. And we did rounds of those runs several times. Well, good exercise under the very cold, wet weather.
When the rain weakened, we knew we had the chance to go nearer to the shore. We trusted Japan so much that we left our valuables in the cottage and went on to investigate what that doughnut-looking structure was.
See a quick overview of what it was like to walk on the Maiko Park:
After taking selfies with the doughnut, we still did not now what it was. ? Sorry, all inscriptions were in Japanese so I could not tell you what was written there. Even the tour about the bridge was only delivered in Japanese so we could not take it but we also did not plan to because of time constraints. Time constraints? Well, not really because we spent more than an hour in this peaceful park.
Like I said in one of my posts that it is sometimes good not to have high expectations. I was just expecting a bridge and that’s it. I did not know it is the world’s longest suspension bridge at almost 4 kilometers and a park called Maiko Park is beside it. So after seeing the real thing, I was just in awe. It was really enormous.
Wow, such those amazing photos