A MONTH IN JAPAN

This Is What Happened To Me In Kobe

Lost, Herbs, Anime

Alex Kuznetsov
My trip
Published in
4 min readFeb 3, 2020

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After exploring Osaka, we soon set off for Kobe. We were going to visit several places from the Fate/stay night anime and try the famous Kobe beef, but everything went a little awry…

Other cities visited: Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo, Aomori, Hakodate, Sapporo, Naha (Okinawa). Links will be added as soon as I publish a related story.

Kobe Shiritsu Yamada Junior High School

As our first point of interest, we were planning to visit Kobe Nunobiki Herb Gardens (神戸布引ハーブ園). It supposed to be close to the Shin-Kobe station, where we arrived. For some reason, we decided to catch a bus to get there.

Once we arrived at the station, we caught the wrong bus that took us to the outskirts, instead of a city centre. Maybe it wasn’t Kobe any more, because there were almost no people. When we took the bus, I thought it was a bit expensive for a ride from the train station to the city centre. Well, every unexpected adventure has a cost.

While I was translating this post, I decided to find where we went on that day. Apparently, it was still Kobe. The full name of the area is…

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