Day 12 ∞ Kobe^JP

From Osaka we take a trip to Kobe, the city was completely destroyed during Great Hansin Earthquake in 1995. Fortunately, a few gems remained, such as Frank Lloyd Wright’ s Yamamura House and Arata Endo’s Koshien Hotel . Takenaka built the Carpentry Tools Museum in Kobe to exhibit the family’s joinery tradition.

But the Seto inland sea beckons and we venture across to the island of Awaji, where we visit the Honpukuji (water temple) and the Yumebutai project by Tadao Ando, both realised in the early 1990s.