Around the ship, this stop is known as “Kobe Two.” We were here a week ago, dropped off about 900 passengers, most from Australia and New Zealand. About 900 Japanese boarded the ship for a seven day cruise around three of the four main Japanese islands. Now, we are disembarking those 900 Japanese and boarding a different group of Japanese for an eleven day cruise to Singapore. This sounds all very complicated but it is the way the cruise industry works these days. It also puts a strain on the crew and in some ways, a strain on the passengers going all the way through to Southampton
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This was an easy day. We did not book a ship’s tour today. Instead we took the shuttle bus into town, it is a short ten minute ride to the largest department in the city. Across the street is the start of one of the largest covered arcade shopping streets. The arcade is about eight blocks long, we walked all of it. Also walked back on the street one block over from the arcade. Took the shuttle back to the pier. The terminal has a number of shops and vendors selling t-shirts, hats, sake, postcards and stuff. Nothing was of great interest to us, so we went back on board the ship.
I think we spent the afternoon doing our laundry.
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| The Kobe Market Street with QE banner |
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| The Welcome committee at the Kobe Pier |
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