Japan trip day 7 ~ Shin Kobe ropeway / Harborland

Today, we visited Shukugawa river but due to cherry blossom had finished, there was not much to see there.  We just stayed a while.

We planned to visit Mitsui Outlet Park since I searched before that it was just one station away.  However, seeing it was all housing area, we knew something was wrong.  Asked the train station staff and he said there wasn't any around the area.  Hence, we dropped the idea and proceeded to Shin-Kobe ropeway.  

The weather was very cold today and up the ropeway, we were very cold.  Wind blowing when we reached the top and had to warm ourselves inside the souvenir shop.  This ended up me buying things again.  :P

Next, our visit was Harborland.  Since Harborland is further away from city area, we guessed maybe the outlet park is near there.  When we reached the station, we asked the information counter and glad that we were directed to the one nearest.  We decided to go after walking around Harbourland.

Harborland has a very big and nice ferris wheel.  With the blue sky today, it looked so nice.

 

Anpan man museum just opened and the place was full of kids.  Japanese parents really doted their kids.  No matter how expensive, they will buy the stuffs for them.  So envy...  We could only take pictures of the place and the things sold there.  Hahaha.

After walking around taking photos, we went to Mitsui Outlet Park.  I did not find any suitable bag and just bought some wallets for my mum, sister and niece.  Just bought one small pouch for myself.

Found a bridge that was very nice with the sunset.

Since we were early tonight, we went to the restaurant near our hotel that sold curry rice.  The curry rice was fantastic.

Japan trip day 6 ~ Mount Rokko @ Kobe

Woke up at usual time and set off to our visit to Mt Rokko.  Our itinerary was to visit Rokko Alpine Botanical Garden and Rokko Garden Terrace.  The rest of the places in the mountain we skipped.

We took JR train to Rokkomichi station and changed to bus to Rokko Cable Shita station.  Took cable car to Rokko Sanko station and from there, we had to take bus to move around the mountain places of interest.  As it may not be the peak season, the cable car and buses were not crowded.  I like it!

Our intention was to visit the Botanical Garden first but due to a slight error (we forgot to press bell to alight), we missed our stop and proceeded to the Garden Terrace first.  Not much to see there but we went to the gift shop and I bought something there.  Very cute and sweet stuff sold in the shop.  I bought a bottle of strawberry jam home.

Took some photos around the area and proceeded to the Botanical garden.  From the notice board, there were only some small flowers to be viewed at this time.  We thought we would make a quick one since nothing much to see but....  ultimately, we spent about 3 hours there.  I think for us, we can really focus and spent our time in a small place each time.  :P

We took photos of the different types of flowers in the garden.  Quite hot today and I took off my jacket.

Had dinner at Namba walk again tonight.  Yummy!  We were early tonight so had more choices to find a restaurant that we wanted to try the food.

Japan trip day 5 ~ Expo 70 Commemorative park/Tsurumi Ryokuchi park

Today's itinerary for sightseeing was to visit Expo 70 Commemorative park and Tsurumi Ryokuchi park.  These are popular parks to view cherry blossoms but too bad, timing not right for us this time round.  However, we can still go since they are parks and can go as leisure walks.

We reached Expo 70 Commermorative park and started to walk around to find the flower garden.  The park is so huge that we can either take 3, 5 or 8 km route to walk around.  Of course we chose 3km.

Walked for some time and it was kind of relaxing and great to breathe fresh air in the morning.  Many old people walked in the park too.

We took some pictures of tulips.  As we had taken too much in the past, we decided not to take too many this time round.  Realised that we had in fact walked part of the 8 km route unknowingly.

Saw a playground with many kids playing.  Spent some time there.  Stayed for a few hours in the park and we proceeded to our next park.

Took a picture of the seat of the subway train.  Very nice green.

Arrived Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park and we walked around the park and had snacks for short break.  Great to sit and watch people walking/jogging.

We found a few late blooming sakura trees and started to take "artistic" photos.  :)

Stayed till evening time and went for shopping.  Bought some stuff tonight and had dinner at Namba walk area.  Most restaurants were closed by the time we finished our shopping.  Glad to find one still accepting us.  Hahaha...