
A building with blue tiles adorning its wall at the Achi Shrine in Kurashiki, Japan.

A building with blue tiles adorning its wall at the Achi Shrine in Kurashiki, Japan.

Bicycles parked outside the train station in Nishinomiya, Japan.

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution is dedicated to the 1995 earthquake in Kōbe, Japan.

A pair of windows on the rear wall of Ikuta-jinja, in Kōbe, Japan.

A Shinto priest performs a ceremony at Ikuta-jinja in Kōbe, Japan.

A business man makes a phone call in the streets of Kōbe, Japan.

Two girls looking out to sea on the waterfront of Meriken Park in Kōbe, Japan.

The Old Kōbe Harbor Signal Tower, Mosaic Ferris Wheel, and Kōbe Port Tower rise up over Harborland, in Kōbe, Japan.

A giant robot, or more specifically, Tetsujin 28, stands ready for action, in Kōbe, Japan.

A woman holds a sign seeking blood donations at an exit from a train station in Kōbe, Japan.