Travel: Foodie & photo feast in Kobe Japan’s Chinatown
I recently spent ten days in Japan, touring the central part of the country, the Kansai region, which is home to the historic city of Kyoto, where you’re most likely to find women dressed in kimonos walking down the street and geishas, Osaka, the second largest city in Japan, and the port city of Kobe, which has a long-standing European flavor. Kobe is also home to a Chinatown, one of three in the country and the second largest in Japan, and despite having so many Chinatowns here at home, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, I found myself fascinated with the Japan version. In fact, I kicked off the PhotowalksTV in Japan episodes with my visit to Chinatown–Osaka and Kobe will have to wait. Why? A simple one-word answer. Those rich, red colors. Japan’s Chinatown in Kobe is awash in rich, red colors. By Jefferson Graham for the PhotowalksTV series Kobe’s Chinatown attracts tourists of all stripe, mostly excited about the street food. My feast was photographic. The colors of the Kobe Chinatown, especially during and after a rain, are magnificent. Take a look at these smartphone images from Chinatown and see if they don’t inspire you to check it out on your next visit to Japan. Gallery…
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