Bubbles in the Sunshine Wharf, Kobe (サンシャインワーフ神戸)
One more sunny weekend in Kobe. Sunshine Wharf is good choice but if you want big fountains during the hot summer days you better choose Nishinomiya Gardens. The bubble fun was after Anpanman show fro the kids. Follow us on twitter:
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Sunshine Wharf Kobe
Sunshine Wharf Kobe
Life in Japan: First Snow in Kobe (神戸で初雪)
Today there was a real snow blizzard in Kobe. Alex and especially Maya loved it!
For Maya this was he best weather ever! We made snow bowl fight and even we build a small snowman in front of our block!
The music to the video is Blown Away from Kevin Macleod (
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Anpanman (ンパンマン) Bubbles (しゃぼんだま) - Meriken Park, Kobe, Japan
Maya and Alex playing with the Anpanman bubbles set (ンパンマンのしゃぼんだま) in Meriken Park, Kobe (神戸メリケンパーク). I don't think any further description is necessary - the joy is obvious:) Follow us on twitter:
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Diamond Princess departs KOBE port for Round Hokkaido Cruising !
Diamond Princess depart KOBE port for Round Hokkaido cruise for 11days. KGVideoWorks. Music Credit : KATEI Vol I . June Japan Travel.
StreetLurkers The Japan Files
A raw edit of various clips we filmed while living in Tokyo this year, featuring - Blake Twentyman, Matt Sorokin & Paul Gardies
Japan Files #16: Bokeh, Concrete Island and HAT Kobe
It's been a while since the last instalment of Japan Files, but here's #16.
In this video:
- Bokeh
- Man on a Wire
- Concrete Island
- Is God a Woman?
- HAT Kobe
Noyane
Coming Spring 2017, Noyane is a seasonal rooftop restaurant featuring contemporary Japanese cuisine, craft cocktails, and unbeatable downtown Chicago views.
Real Life Japan 10: Lonely Walk and Shrine
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This is the view from outside my prison cell. Today is January 1st 2012. And here in Kobe, Japan I am all alone beacause most of my Japanese friends, all of my Japanese friends want to spend the day with their families. And that leaves me alone, so I'm going to go out and go on a walk since it's nice and sunny out. And I want to go to the shrine. Although I'm not really religious... I guess I am a little bit Buddhist I guess. I kind of like Buddhism. I'm going to go visit the shrine just to enjoy the ambiance.
I wanted to show you something here. This is my jacket. Somebody gave me this jacket about 14 years ago and that person who gave me this jacket worked at Fed Ex, so this is like a Fed Ex jacket and I just took off the label. Since the jacket is really old the zipper fell off and I just used a paper clip in place of the zipper that fell off.
This jacket might be the reason why I'm not so popular with women. And actually, I'd like to buy a really nice... You know, sometimes when I'm speaking in English I'm actually thinking in Japanese. . . I want to buy a really nice dressy jacket. But the thing is I keep telling myself that I'm going to move to Thailand and I'm not going to need a jacket, so why waste 200 dollars on a jacket. So anyways, that's my jacket zipper.
I'm here at Hat Kobe. It's a pier near central Kobe. Yesterday was December 31st. I didn't go out of my house all day yesterday, so it's nice to come out here and go on a walk. Ah, I just feel really lonely and I miss my wife. I see some other people here walking too.
Looks like people are flying kites day. This is a good day to fly kites. I don't know, it's kind of symbolic. It's the first day of the year, first day of 2012. Put a kite in the air. These ones, they're speaking Korean I think.
Looks like I lost the sunshine that I was enjoying when I came here. It's pretty dismal out here today. There's not many people out. I'll show you what it looks like here now. There's some boats docked here. I don't know if these are private boats or commercial boats.
Over there is Minatogawa Shrine. I'm going to head over there now. It is really crowded here. The only saving grace I have is that I'm taller than everybody. Everyone wants to pray at the shrine on the first day of January so it's really crowded.
So this is the area in the temple grounds where all the vendors have set up. You can buy food, snacks. They have games here, toys for kids. Everything.
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Maya Having Fun at the Kobe Food Festival (神戸食品祭り)
Maya definitely enjoyed the Kobe Food Festival this weekend. She was very genki (energetic) and at the end she was even on the scene together with the rest of the performers!
She didn't missed and the opportunity to meet some of the local superheroes - the power rangers!
The music to the video is Feelin Good from Kevin Macleod website - incompetech.com/ Follow us on twitter:
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Rainbow Bridge and a Cruise ship, Tokyo Bay (Time Lapse)
The Cruise ship passes through the under of Rainbow Bridge, comes alongside to HINODE pier.
proRC神戸大会告知
Hi there,
proRC神戸大会告知
世界最大 proR/Cドリフトイベント
THE WORLD'S LARGEST R/C DRIFTING RACING EVENT.
proRC 2nd anniversary 2013 in Kobe
来たる、2013年9月1日はproRC神戸大会が開催されます。
2013神戸チャンピオン、まっすん
2012名古屋チャンピオン、いずみん
2013名古屋チャンピオン、こばけん
proRC Professional playerのインタビューを踏まえお届けします。
350名の頂点にたつのは？？？
地元関西勢からチャンピオン誕生か？それとも遠征組からか？！
=2013 proRC神戸大会神戸=
日時：2013年9月1日
場所：神戸サンシャインワーフ特設会場（野外特殊アスファルト）
JAPAN R/C Drifting Racing will be held in Kobe Sep 1st, 2013.
350-strong.
What we want to reach is the top.
WHO WILL WIN???
proRC 2nd anniversary 2013
on Sunday, September 1, 2013
at KOBE SUNSHINE Wharf
Japan Files #11: Jaco Pastorius, Sannomiya and a Praying Mantis
Here's the eleventh episode. A real collage as always! Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching!
Contents include:
- Jaco
- Lane hopping 101
- Sannomiya: heart of Kobe
- Ashiya park
- Mantis praying at night
- Elegant and copious
- Note to self on vlogging
Japan Files #10: Sunshine Wharf, Conbini Cat and McDrive Thru
So here's #10! Thanks for supporting this series so far.
Contents include:
- Sunshine Wharf
- Conbini cat
- I am a Cat - Natsume Soseki
- Midnight sun
- Dinner with the devil
- Kanji of the day
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The Japan Files #1: Haiku, Typhoons and Xtreme Racers
First vlog!
Contents include:
- What's the hurry?
- Haiku
- Power of the bell
- Typhoon Jose
- A Kobe kind of Blue
- Roulette row
- Xtreme racer
- Love will tear us apart
南京町 Kobe's China Town Nankin Machi Walking
南京町 Kobe's China Town Walking around trying to find something to eat 餃子 Gyoza Chinese Food
Police Patrool - Harbor Land, Kobe :)
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Little MUSIC CONCERT in Japan of 集え! Animal Park! and JOONHO&GYUMIN
Little Music Concert in Sunshine Wharf Kobe
Japan Trip 2012 Tokyo Ikebukuro Station East exit Electronics stores
Ikebukuro
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ikebukuro (池袋?) is a commercial and entertainment district in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. Toshima ward offices, Ikebukuro station, and several shops, restaurants, and enormous department stores are located within city limits.
At the center of Ikebukuro is the train and subway station, a huge urban gathering shared by the JR East lines, the Seibu Ikebukuro Line and the Tōbu Tōjō Line. It is one of the main commuter hubs in the western Yamanote area of Tokyo. Ikebukuro Station is the second busiest station in Japan, second only to Shinjuku Station.
Around the station are the Seibu and Tōbu department stores. Seibu, written with the characters for West and Musashi (province) 西武, is on the east end of the station and Tōbu, written with the characters for East and Musashi 東武, is on the west end. East of the station, on the site of Sugamo Prison, stands Sunshine 60, which was Tokyo's tallest building at the time of its construction. Adjacent to Sunshine City, on Meiji-Dori is the Toyota Amlux Building which houses the Toyota showroom. Otome Road, a leading shopping area for otaku products aimed at women, is located nearby. Marui and Don Quijote also have department stores in the area. The principal electronics retailer in Ikebukuro is Bic Camera. There is a small pleasure district located in Nishi-Ikebukuro, similar to Shinjuku's Kabukichō.
The old village of Ikebukuro stood to the northwest of the station. Most of the area on which modern Ikebukuro is built was historically known as Sugamo. In the Taishō and Shōwa periods, the relatively low land prices attracted artists and foreign workers, who lent a somewhat cosmopolitan atmosphere to Ikebukuro. Until October 1, 1932 when Toshima ward was established, the area was an independent municipality of Ikebukuro-mura (池袋村).
The kanji for Ikebukuro literally means pond bag. Outside the west exit of Ikebukuro station near an entrance to the Fukutoshin Line is a small plaque explaining three origins of the name Ikebukuro. The first is that in the northeastern part of the village there was a lake shaped like someone holding a bag. The second is that there was once a large number of lakes in the area of various sizes (thus implying a bag full of lakes). The third is that long ago a turtle came out of the lake carrying a bag on its back.
There is a small statue of an owl located near the center of the city called Ikefukurō-zō (いけふくろう像), meaning lake owl statue. It is a play on words from the alternative meaning of fukuro as owl (although owl is pronounced with a long final oh, rather than a short o in the word fukuro for bag). The owl statue has become a famous meeting place along the lines of the statue of Hachikō located outside of Shibuya Station.
Education
Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Toshima Ward. Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.
Crime and safety
The Kyokuto-kai designated yakuza syndicate is headquartered in Ikebukuro.
In popular culture
Ikebukuro is the setting of the Japanese manga and TV drama Ikebukuro West Gate Park. It is also the setting of the Japanese light novel series, anime, and manga, Durarara!!. Ikebukuro is also the name of a 16-minute long track from the Brian Eno album, The Shutov Assembly.
Possible last remnant of tsunami sighting, Pender Harbour, BC Canada
Seen in Lee Bay, Pender Harbour, British Columbia at about 4:05 p.m. on 27th February 2010 - about the time the remnants of the tsunami from the Chilean earthquake might have arrived. Shots of the scene before and after the disturbance show that the sea was calm and undisturbed and there were no boats in the area. A boat had gone by a short time before but it was a small one and obligingly it went by again about half an hour later. The final three clips show the boat and its wake - very much less than we had seen in the time under consideration. Was this the last of the tsunami arriving in a bay known to magnify waves arriving from the south west? Or was it just the wake of a boat that had somehow been unusually enhanced? We see all sizes of water craft go by right up to cruise ships and none produces a wake pattern like this. If it was the real thing, it would have followed a complicated route along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, up the Strait of Georgia and into the Malaspina Strait, so not much of it would be expected to survive by then. The most dramatic part of this video is in fact the sound. There is a very marked increase in wave noise as the waves (clearly seen in the preview still) arrive on shore.