they say that staying in one place for
too long is not good for our mental or
physical health as humans it's in our
nature to travel breaking free from our
comfort zones allows us to heal so much
of our burdens people don't really
realize that travel is the most organic
of medicines
that's why leaving for a day in Kobe
Japan was absolutely invigorating
tobei of the home of none other than
coal babies the finest beef on this
planet but little do people know when
you come to coal Bay to try the beef you
need to get a little bit of history
nature and culture to make that Kobe
beef taste even better we arrived at San
Gnomeo station after taking a three hour
train ride from Tokyo to Cobain I heard
from you guys that Akashi Aki is a must
try in this region okay so I'm headed to
lunch right now we're going to try some
Akashi Aki it's like takoyaki um it's
more soft it's not as hard I've never
had it before yeah I'll let you know how
Akashi Aki is similar to takoyaki except
it's made with egg and not flour
it's basically an egg dumpling this is
how you eat Akashi ah geez
it's so funny it looks delicious look
how much there is oh my god I don't know
if I can eat all this well it's so
difficult to pick up inside is octopus
served with the side of bonito broth
soup to dip it in it was so difficult to
pick up because it was so soft and
fluffy this could be a very good
breakfast food the shop we went to was
called taco on and it's quite close to
the station I'll link everything down
below so check it out after lunch we
headed towards kitano Museum it's also
known as key tunnel a gene gun the
museum is up in the mountains and to get
there you have to pass a street filled
with western-style buildings and old
houses okay so I'm walking to kitano UVM
and Kitano museum is mostly full of
houses that were built in these teams in
the 1860s also during the World War it's
very quiet here but the architecture of
all these buildings are absolutely
amazing I want to live here so bad the
Starbucks building in Co Bay was extra
cool
the building itself was built in the
1900s and it gave off a very homey vibe
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the building has authentic and teks with
two floors to choose from and looking
for a place to sit each room had its own
unique spin on it
you can get your own Cobain mug or
tumbler when you come here and it's
highly recommended that you do because
you can't get this anywhere else in
Japan after the coffee break I finally
made it a little farther up the mountain
reaching the museum which is basically a
montage American style home they have a
few houses here that were built back in
the eighteen hundreds and a few houses
here that were built back in World War
two we're gonna walk around and see what
we can find this museum dates from the
early Meiji period and taisho period and
was built up to Japan opened itself up
as a treaty port in 1869 this pastel
green house is the mo AG house it was
built in 1903 by the American vice
consul Col Bay has the best preserved
old homes and these homes were built to
allow Westerners or Europeans to feel at
home while in Japan
we can't touch anything behind the
village is a flight of stairs leading to
10 months right it has a great view of
katana Museum and Cove a city itself the
views from above were so stunning and it
made me feel so connected with Japan I
don't know about you but whenever I
visit shrines like these that's how I
feel another cool thing that you can do
here is get your fortune told by water
I'm gonna try pay 300 yen and you can
dip a piece of rolled up paper into the
water to reveal your fortune I got
Daikichi which is the best fortune this
is the third time I got this year rub
the noses of the animal statues you see
around the area to bring good luck so I
met this cute cafe right now and you can
get pancakes and waffles and all sorts
of things
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the you don't go house was one of the
houses I really wanted to see it was
stunning and it looked like a castle it
was built for the rich foreigners back
in the day and it means fish scales due
to the architecture of the mansion next
to the Utica house is a museum of art
created by European artists you can tell
it with a little bit trippy a standing
giraffe this is what I came here for the
last thing I saw on the state triptych
ovate was a kuta shrine it's one of the
oldest in Japan and built in the 3rd
century AD if you're lucky you'll see a
lot of weddings here people literally
drop everything to take a peek at the
ceremony our final stop and the reason
we came here was for the Kobe beef of
course you have to come here to eat Kobe
beef the most famous restaurant in Kobe
is called nice Ono and its history and
delicious meat is what drives the
customers in Miss Ono opened in 1945 due
to the large amount of foreigners in the
area after World War two it was the
first to serve teppanyaki style cuisine
which is a style of Japanese cooking
using an iron griddle are you familiar
with Benihana in the US the owner of
this restaurant opened a Benihana in
various locations across America cool
right
the view from your seat is gorgeous you
can see all of Cove a and it's
especially beautiful at night so I
suggest you book a reservation during
the evening I'm gonna try something cold
some other cool bit eat today and I'll
tell you guys how is I ordered the type
of sake but you can get here at any new
so no chain restaurant so basically you
just pour it into the glass like this
when you have in Japan so this is
something that you don't do anywhere
else
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we started our course meal with some
roast beef salad and shrimp brain yummy
but all the meat here was really tender
and juicy I'll never know how they got
it perfectly cooked
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okay so this is actually in shrink brain
it doesn't look through it there
anything it sounds gross but it's not
true it's actually very delicious next
was our grilled fresh vegetables and
when I say fresh they were fresh best
grilled vegetables I had in a long time
eat these vegetables of the sauce they
give you at your table and a little bit
of salt pepper and mustard to draw out
more flavor nice ona was the first to
think of putting a cap on top of their
food while it cooks to make everything
juicy and flavorful
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actually it's very expensive so I'm
gonna try it today this is garlic it
looks delicious
put some garlic on the meat the garlic
is really crunchy
is so tender I'm so happy right now
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the time has come I'm going to try Co
baby for the first time
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so
it's very tender and lots of flavor just
like the other one it's definitely worth
everything that you pay for here at this
point I was so stuffed but they gave me
some garlic fried rice and soup from the
shrimp brain I had to finish off the
meal just got more food I've never had
so much food in my life just drink the
soup don't eat the actual shrimp that's
really good
as a very subtle piece once the stomach
after you eat a lot our final
destination was dessert with a mango and
vanilla ice cream with cheesecake we
have ice cream vanilla and Mangal I
think I'm here I'd highly recommend it
it's really great a good thing to put on
your bucket list
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