Rokko Island Halloween Carnival
The name says it all. Halloween party on Rokko Island, Kobe. If you have kids and you are in the area this is definitely the place to be during Halloween. Actually there were three simultaneous events – the Halloween carnival, the flea market and the harvest festival (merged more or less in one).
First – if you have never been on Rokko Island just take the Rokko Liner from Sumiyoshi JR station or Hanshin Uozaki. I took several movies from the liner so you can see them on YouTube. This first one is from Sumiyoshi to Uozaki station (from Uozaki station you can take also the Hanshin train – just keep in mind that the local Hanshin train is much slower than the local JR train).
This movie is from Uozaki to Minami Uozaki stations:
From Minami Uozaki to Island Kitaguchi stations (you can see the Osaka bay and some industries and at the very end you can see part of the park surrounding all of the Rokko Island residential area):
And finally the Rokko Island itself (you can see even part of the Halloween Carnival from above)
In case you need the Kobe Rokko Liner (and Port Liner) schedule and map – you can find them here.
The carnival is fun. There was face drawing, pumpkin gutting, Halloween parade and many other activities. The only annoying thing you can expect (especially if you are with ‘gaijin’ kids) are many, many unauthorized photo sessions. I am quite OK if these are really old obasan, ojisans (grandmothers, grandfathers) even though still I expect them first to ask but when this is a relatively young guy with unprofessional camera and pinku tea-shirt (and especially when he comes twice to take pictures), well – then you can expect a little bit gaijin behaviour from me.
Anyway overall it was a very omoshiroi (entertaining) experience. Here are the pictures and the movies:
And here are the photos:
And here comes the flea market (at least you must agree that it is quite colorful):
And the photos:
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