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Kobe 4 Nov 2007
This is the first of about nine photos all taken early (before breakfast) on Sunday, Nov 4 in Kobe (Hyogo district), during a "free" morning, before we left via shinkansen (bullet train) for Tokyo that afternoon.
This is the entrance to the hotel we stayed at during the first time in Kobe.
I learned later that Hyogo (which includes the original sea port) is historically the oldest portion of the city. However, little, if anything, in these photos is more than about 60 years old. The Hyogo district was especially (intentionally) hard hit in the raid on Kobe by US B-29s on March 17, 1945. In addition, Kobe was extensively damaged by a January 17, 1995 earthquake (4600 deaths within the city). I don't know how much this particular area had to be rebuilt after the earthquake.
Notice that no photos in this album correspond to the days between October 28 and November 4. We really did work long hours most days over there.
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