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Ah, they say that staying in one place for too long is not good for our mental or physical health.
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As humans, it's in our nature to travel.
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Breaking free from our comfort zones allows us to feel so much of our burdens.
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People don't really realize that travel is the most organic of medicines.
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That's why leaving for a day in Kobe, Japan, was absolutely invigorating.
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Kobe is the home of none other than Kobe beef the finest beef on this planet.
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But little do people know when you come to Kobe to try the beef, you need to get a little bit of history, nature and culture to make that call baby taste even better.
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Way arrived at Sun No, me a station.
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After taking a three hour train ride from Tokyo to Kobe, I heard from you guys at Akashi.
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AKI is a must try in this region.
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Okay, so I'm headed Teoh lunch.
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Right now, we're going to try some Mukasey AKI.
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It's like Taco Yockey.
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It's more soft.
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It's not as hard.
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I've never had it before.
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Yeah, I'll let you know how it tastes.
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Akashi AKI is similar to Taco Yockey, except it's made with egg and not flour.
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It's basically an egg dumpling.
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This is how you eat Takashi AKI.
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It's so funny.
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It looks delicious.
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How much there is... oh my god!
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I don't know if I could eat all this. It's so difficult to pick up.
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Inside is octopus, served with a side of bonito broth soup to dip it in.
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It was so difficult to pick up because it was so soft and fluffy.
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This could be a very good breakfast food shop we went to was called Taco On, and it's quite close to the station.
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I'll link everything down below, so check it out.
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After lunch, we headed towards Kitano Museum.
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It's also known as Key Tunnel Edging Gun.
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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.
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Okay, so I'm walking to Kitano Museum and Kitano Museum is mostly full of houses that were built in 18 in the 18 sixties, also during the World War.
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It's very quiet here, with architecture of all these buildings are absolutely amazing.
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I want to live here so bad the Starbucks building in Kobe was extra cool.
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The building itself is built in the 19 hundreds, and it gave off a very homey vibe.
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The building has authentic antiques with two floors to choose from.
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When looking for a place to sit.
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Each room has its own unique spin on it.
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You can get your own Kobe mug or tumble here when you come here, and it's highly recommended that you do because you can't get this anywhere else in Japan.
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After the coffee break, I finally made it a little farther up the mountain reaching the museum.
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I am Kitana Museum, which is basically a montage of American style home.
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They have a few houses here that were built back in the agent hundreds and a few houses here that were built back in World War Two.
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We're gonna walk around and see what we can find.
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This museum dates from the early major period and Taisho Period and was built after Japan opened itself up as a treaty port in 18 69.
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So you have to take off your shoes before you go in... anywhere.
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This pastel greenhouses, the Mogi house.
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It was built in 1903 by the American vice consul.
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Kobe has the best preserved old homes, and these homes were built to allow Westerners or Europeans to feel at home while in Japan.
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Cast behind the village is a flight of stairs leading to 10 months shrine.
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It has a great view of Katonah Museum and Kobe City itself.
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Views from above were so stunning, and it made me feel so connected with Japan.
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I don't know about you, but whenever I visit shines like these, that's how I feel.
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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.
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I got dyke ET, which is the best fortune.
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This is the third time I got dyke Yogi here rubbed the noses of the animal statues you see around the area to bring good luck.
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So I keep cafe right now and you can get pancakes and waffles and all sorts of things.
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So, you know, Cool House was one of the houses I really wanted to see.
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It was stunning and it looked like a castle.
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It was built for the rich foreigners back in the day, and it means fish scales due to the architecture of the mansion.
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Next to the Udoka House is a museum of art created by European artists.
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You can tell it with a little bit trippy standing duress thing is what I came here for.
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The last thing I saw in the state trip to Kobe was echoed a shrine.
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It's one of the oldest in Japan and built in the third century A.
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D.
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If you're lucky, you'll see a lot of weddings here.
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People literally drop everything to take a peek at the ceremony.
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It's Where's my parents?
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Our final stop.
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And the reason we came here was for the Kobe beef.
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Of course you have to come here.
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Eight.
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Kobe Beef most famous restaurant in Kobe is called me so No, and its history and delicious meat is what drives the customers in Misano.
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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 cookie using an iron griddle.
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Are you familiar with Benny Hana in the US?
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The owner of this restaurant opened Beni Hana in various locations across America.
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Cool.
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Right view from your seat is gorgeous.
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You can see all of Kobe, and it's especially beautiful at night.
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So I suggest you book a reservation during the evening.
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Okay, so right now and this is what you get.
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Really?
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Good.
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Cool, baby.
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I'm gonna try something.
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Some other Kobe today on outside, guys.
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Hope is I ordered.
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Do you like that type of stuff?
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Gay.
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You get here at any, uh, so no chain restaurants.
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So basically, you just pour it into the glass like this when you have bucket in Japan.
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So there's something that you don't do anywhere else.
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He started her course meal with roast beef salad and shrimp brain.
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Yummy.
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But all the meat here was really tender and juicy.
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I'll never know how they got it perfectly cooked.
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Okay, so this is actually shrimp brains.
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It doesn't look room or anything.
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It sounds gross, but it's not gross. It's actually very delicious.
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Next was our grilled fresh vegetables.
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And when I say fresh, they were fresh.
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Best grilled vegetables.
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I had in a long time eat these vegetables.
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The sauce that give you at your table and a little bit of salt, pepper and mustard to draw out more flavor.
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So no 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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You.
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It's a black hair.
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How so You can actually get this?
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Supermarkets.
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I've seen very pension, so I'm gonna try it today.
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This is garlic.
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It looks delicious.
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Garlic on meat.
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Garlic is really crunchy.
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The meat is so tender.
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I'm so happy right now.
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The time has come.
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I'm going to try co baby for the first time, so it's very tender and lots of flavor.
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Just like the other one is definitely worth everything that you pay for here.
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At this point, I was so stuffed, but they gave me some garlic fried rice and soup from the shrimp brain.
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I had to finish off the meal.
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It just got more food.
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I've never had so much food in my life.
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Just drink with, you know, actual.
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That's really good, very stomach after you eat a lot.
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Our final destination was dessert with a mango and vanilla ice cream with cheesecake way.
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Have ice cream, vanilla and Mongol, I think Theo Way.
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I hope you enjoyed my one day travel guide to Kobe.
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