Kobe day

Sunday. Dad's yacht day.
Drove to harbor, dropped him off, and my mom and I went to the mall we went last week for cooking lesson. This is other big malls in Osaka


Nishinomiya harbor

We learn basic bread making for try out price.

Between the process, the instructor explained how much the joining and monthly fees are. (basic starts at ($1200 per year for 36 lessons)

This is very good business in Japan, because all girls are expected to know how to cook. This tradition is STILL going strong.

Curry flavor sausage bread

Very busy place.

after the cooking lesson, we peeked the new trend in Japan. Dog cafe, and Dog run.

the other side of the department store, there are place for DOGs. Dog run is supervised space for dogs. There is also day-care for dogs so the owner can go shopping. Also, there is a dog hotel, doctor, and beauty salon.

Dog run

clothing on sale... it was WAY more expensive than my cloth... It was $100 per piece!

I saw this lady in the dog place.

Pay attention to the buggy... Her dog is in there!!!
This scene is not strange in Japan...

The weather was not so good, so my dad was back early.

We had enough time to go to KOBE. I wanted to go to the China town.

Parking in the city is VERY tight and expensive. $1 for 15minutes.

Took the big shopping street to get to the China Town.

Kobe is also called the town of "wear to death" you can find cheap shoes. by the way,

Osaka is the town of "eat to death" great restaurants all over

and... CHINA TOWN in Kobe

Very small compare to Yokohama, but way cheaper!

I love tapioca drink... You can buy this in Knoxville tho. Go to old city if you wanna try.
Mine is milk tea with tapioca

So many choices!!! love street food!

I had some sesame rice cake on the street, but my parents had to sit in cool place, so we went to Chinese noodle place. They were all fantastic!

We call this ramen, but these are freshly made

After the noodle, we walked back other way to parking lot.
As you can see, these stores are under the railway, goes Sannomiya station to Motomachi station (pretty long)

This was used to be my favorite place to shop, but i could see economy has hit this place, too.

It was not as busy as I used to know... :(

unusual things are sold here...

Good old Japanese traffic jam. This was not bad. Some places had 10 miles long jam today, because it was the first day of summer vacation for kids.

Tomorrow is long drive, so we had to fill gas.

Until not too long ago, it was all full service. Today, it is both American style and full service.

We go to american style; we call "self service" or "self" to save some money...

Look at the glove. Japanese thinking of customer service :)

I have to leave at 5 am tomorrow, so good night!!!