Our last day. We decided to take the train to Kobe. The distance between Kyoto and Kobe is 1 hour and 9 minutes - but 25 minutes by bullet train! We took a trolley up Mt. Rocco, which is behind Kobe, so that we could see the view and some of the countryside. It was pretty stunning. There was a lookout platform at the top along with a gift shop. We waited for a bus which took us to Rokkosan Pasture, a farm on the mountain. It was a nice walk where the sheep were loose and the hills were rolling. We ate grilled sausage and tasted cheese ice cream (as they made their own cheese at this farm).
It was very humorous to see Japanese men in Swiss Alp costumes playing the Swiss long horn and also a singing group with yodeling. We thought we were in the wrong country.
We finished the evening by stopping in Osaka and having an amazing steak dinner in a modern mall.
Osaka mall
Sheep farm behind Kobe
Did we mention that the bullet train is very cool????
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