Kobe Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
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Kobe Saturday Trip
Our first stop was to eat breakfast and where better than Eggs 'n Things?! It's a Hawaiian restaurant, and their pancakes come with what seems like a foot of whipped cream on top. We'd already been to this location a couple times before. It's located near Meriken Park (メリケンパーク). Meriken Park is a waterfront park in Kobe's port area. The famous "Be Kobe" sign, Kobe Tower, the Maritime Museum (which we saw on a previous visit) are a few of the things you can experience here.
From there we took a train to get to the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. The architect for this museum was the same one who did the Chichu Art Museum on Naoshima Island! One of the outdoor art installations is a giant green apple that was inspired by Samuel Ullman's poem Youth:
Youth is not a time of life; it is a
state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple
knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor
of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
One thing we haven't found often in Japan is good American-style pizza, but a friend recommended Jesus Pizza in Kobe and it DID NOT disappoint. You can order by the slice or get a whole pizza; we went with the whole pizza and it was GIGANTIC. After eating so much pizza we had to walk off the fullness and we paid a visit to BOOKOFF to look for CDs. We then wrapped up the day by visiting Kobe City Hall. Why City Hall? They have an observation deck on the top floor that you can visit for free and get a nice view of the city and the sunset.
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