Actually the ship berthed in Kobe since Osaka is inland, although it wasn't always. Historically it was important as a trade hub with connections to the Silk Road, and today it's an important financial centre as well as being Japan's third biggest city. There are plenty of options as far as things to see are concerned and we opted for the Sumiyoshi Taisha shrine, followed, with all the inevitability of night following day, a river cruise.
Pictures
A panel commemorating the links to the Silk Road.
Part of the shrine
The grounds
Shinto, Japan's indigenous religion, is nature based; here's a cute little representation of the fox god
A view of the banks from the boat on our river cruise. At this point we still hadn't quite managed to align what we thought Japan would be like with how it is. It's modern and industrialised and the fact that we weren't prepared for it to be like that is totally on us. We did get there though.
I see from my notes that the OH lost his hat at some point during this day; I can't remember any of the details of that presumably because he found it again quite quickly!
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