Coming live from downtown Kobe it's SANNOMIYA!
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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Inside The Hub
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The result.
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Val and Ryan, playing an odd version of slaps.
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The first shrine (or temple >_<) I visited.
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Accross the road is a bar called the Hub. It's an (not at all, big dissapointment, don't even have crisps at the bar or even the Beatles on the jukebox) English Pub
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Urm ... this is still in Sannomiya, right?
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Laura and Courtney.
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Crossing roads with lights is much easier, but still freaky when a car doesn't stop.
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Sannomiya Baby!
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Crossing a road in Japan is a lot different to the UK ... I still don't really know what to do on a zebra crossing.
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Back end of a Bus ... urm.
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And who says the Japanese don't have
big balls ... (commence booing).
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BOWLING!
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I wish I could say I photoshopped this pillar in (so I could get rid of it).
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This arcade (look close at the big SEGA logo) had very little (no) games I knew T_T.
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Sannomiya train station.
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Everyone in Japan's so kind. This woman pointed me in the right direction.
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Is it just me, or does that say ASS.
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I practice high jumping and manage to get a good picture at the same time.
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Nothing beats a bit of kimchi and ramen ... well, ramen anyway (yellow sign).
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They even had salt-fish and ackee ... 1500yen? Bog off! (and I don't mean buy one get one free)
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Of all the countries and all the cities in the world, I find a Jamaican Restaurant.
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The FBI
really need to work on their undercover operations.
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I can read kanji me! On the right 山口銀行 says Yamaguchi Bank.
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Don't be fooled, this is neither meditteranean nor a restaurant ... well, the ground floor of the pink building's a cafe but that's it.
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All these romanji names make me forget a little that I'm actually in Japan.
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Ok team, what are we going to do today ... anything?
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Leila - Giggler of the moment.
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Did someone say, Shopping? ... no? Oh ... my bad.
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