My first stop was at In Tha Door Brewery, which I somehow missed on recent trips to Kobe. I found out about it in a New York Times article. I'm here for the annual JALT Pan SIG Conference at Konan University.
Session IPA.
My hotel this time around is near Kobe's Chinatown.
I was going to try a new gyoza (pot stickers) restaurant, but it was getting late so I went to a local classic, Hyotan, which was just up the street.
Nightlife.
Australian Green Ant Gin from Adelaide tasted at Bar Puzzle, a gin joint I discovered on my last trip.
Inside the Motomachi train station near Chinatown.
0 for 2 in visiting the Tadanori Yokoo Museum of Contemporary Art, two years ago it was closed due to typhoon damage. This time they were preparing the next exhibition.
It looks interesting though.
There was another museum I wanted to visit nearby, about a 15 minute walk toward the harbor, the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
There was an exhibition by Kyosai, one of my favorite Japanese artists.
Perhaps the ugliest public art I have ever seen.
The conference is in Nishinomiya, a wealthy suburb between Kobe and Osaka. It is sister cities with my hometown of Spokane, Washington.
Konan University Cube Campus is the conference location.
Back to school, this shop is called Gyoza Daigaku,("Gyoza University").
A couple of servings of garlic infused goodness.
More Chinatown in Motomachi.
Good pics bro. How many conferences do the universities pay for each year in Japan? Has to be more than in the US, seems like you go once a month.
Posted by: Kraig McCoy | May 20, 2019 at 11:25 PM