Kobe (Kyoto), Japan Port Reviews

2.5 hour bus ride each way from port. Bullet train is 20 minutes. Would have been a great experience as one way or the other or both ways on the tour. Golden temple is a building in the middle of a lake painted yellow with a golden rooster on top. The steps are 3 flights of uneven with NO hand rails. Very unsafe. Did see the palace building. Moat surrounding.

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Took HoHo bus went up to the cable car.

We were treated to a midnight embarkation, so it gave us more time to enjoy this stop. We took advantage of having a wonderful teppanyaki dinner with very tasty Kobe beef.

Took the Osaka on your own excursion. 1 hour on the bus to Osaka. Osaka was the highlight of the whole trip. So much shopping and food! I know others said Kobe was just ok, so choose to go to Osaka!

Visited: Mar 12, 2016

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Took a tour from the ship to see the UNESCO site of the yellow temple. Couldn’t get inside. Walked through the forest on a dirt cobblestone path. Nothing to see here, move along. We then went to another UNESCO site of a lord samurai. Big deal! Square brown house with some imitation painted silk screens. There are signs along the path through the house that explained what went on in each of the rooms, but it was extremely crowded. I got pushed aside a lot by rude people who wanted to read the sign. (I’m only 5’ tall, they should have been able to see around me). It may have been interesting, but we were rushed. I’d say skip this tour. For $179 you can see more and do more on your own.

Ship docked in Kobe Harbor. We had a wonderful, independent tour of Nara Deer Park.

Visited: Mar 04, 2019

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Overnight here, no excursion booked, Shuttle to city and took hop on hop off bus, Chinatown and shopping mall.

Visited: Apr 13, 2019

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Arrived here at the end of our Princess Cruise. Could not get into our hotel room until 3pm so we went off to explore the town. We took the City Loop Bus. A day pass cost us Y660. You can get on and off as many times as you like. We got off at stop 11 and headed up the Kobe Nunobiki Ropeway (a cable car). This cost us Y950 each for a one way ticket. This took us up to the Kobe Herb garden. This was fantastic. The gardens were fantastic. The food and drink in the gardens is VERY expensive. We then walked down the path to the bottom of the hill past the Nunobiki Falls. There is a small very traditional cafe just before the falls. We wished we had waited until we got here to eat the prices were very reasonable. We came out at the Shinkobe train station which had a City Loop bus stop. A great day. Other notable stops included China Town and various shopping streets.

2 days before cruise. Lot of nice places to discover. The best place for shopping.

Visited: Jun 01, 2019

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