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East of Kobe Sannomiya lies Oji-koen Park, in which I took a leisurely walk on a sunny winter day, watching birds and some flowers by the small river and enjoyed the view over Kobe City.
② Location: https://goo.gl/maps/mCFxeuHewNWzQ7Jz5
③ Weather: winter, cold, sunny, partially cloudy
④ Time and date: December 2022, 15:00
⑤ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Hankyu-Ojikoen Station / 王子公園駅
4:40 Flowers!!
5:25 Oji Park / 王子公園
8:00 Aotani River Park / 青谷川公園
17:30 Shinshoji Temple / 真照寺
20:30 Staircase ascend
21:20 Shironoshitadori / 城の下通
22:30 I love this road!
24:30 I didn’t expect a path even further here
26:45 Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School / 兵庫県立神戸高等学校
⑥ More information on the locations I’ve visited in this video:
▶ Kobe Nada District (from Wikipedia)
Nada (灘区, Nada-ku, Japanese: [nadakɯ]) is one of nine wards of Kobe, Japan. It has an area of 31.4 km², and a population of 129,095 (2008). A leading national university in Japan, Kobe University, is located in this ward, as is the city’s Oji Zoo.
The Tadao Ando-designed Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is a short walk south of the Nada JR station. Rokko High School is in Nada-ku.
Nada is a major sake producing region, and along with Fushimi produces 45% of all the sake in Japan.
A plenitude of water good for making sake and a location near Osaka (the hub of physical distribution) made it one of the most principal areas of making sake. It was one of the sake production areas called Nada-Gogō.
The fine taste of the Nada sake comes from ‘Miyamizu’ mineral-rich water, which was discovered during the Tenpō era (1830–1844) by Tazaemon Yamamura from the Uozaki-go district. Miyamizu is hard water high in calcium and potassium but low in iron, making it ideal for making rich, full-flavored sake.
The most essential factors for making pure sake are good grain polishing ability and low temperatures. In the five sake-producing districts in Nada, water from the river that flows from Mount Rokkō into the sea is used to power rice-polishing water mills, thus producing highly polished grains of rice, which is not possible with manpower alone. Furthermore, the combination of the cold winds, known as ‘Rokko oroshi’, and the influence of the inland sea makes for ideal weather conditions for brewing sake in winter.
▶ Kobe (from Wikipedia)
Kobe is Japan’s seventh-largest city after Kawasaki, the third-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture. It is located on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay and about 30 km (19 mi) west of Osaka. With a population around 1.5 million, the city is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto.
Kobe was one of the cities to open for trade with the West following the 1853 end of the policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan and nuclear-free zone port city. While the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake diminished much of Kobe’s prominence as a port city, it remains Japan’s fourth-busiest container port. Companies headquartered in Kobe include ASICS, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Kobe Steel, as well as over 100 international corporations with Asian or Japanese headquarters in the city, such as Eli Lilly and Company, Procter & Gamble, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Nestlé. The city is the point of origin and namesake of Kobe beef, the home of Kobe University, as well as the site of one of Japan’s most famous hot spring resorts, Arima Onsen.
Away from the seaside at the heart of Kobe lie the Motomachi and Sannomiya districts, as well as Kobe’s Chinatown, Nankin-machi, all well-known retail areas. A multitude of train lines cross the city from east to west. The main transport hub is Sannomiya Station, with the eponymous Kobe Station located to the west and the Shinkansen Shin-Kobe Station to the north.
Mount Rokkō overlooks Kobe at an elevation of 931 m (3,054 ft). During the autumn season, it is famous for the rich change in colors of its forests.
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▶ Zhiyun Crane Plus
▶ Davinci Resolve
▶ DJI Osmo Pocket 2
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