Thermal cameras, what were they for you ask? Testing your body temperature of course. Anybody found to have a raised temperature was quarantined and put straight back aboard. Luckily despite my lurking head cold I was waved through to enjoy an excursion to Hiroshima.
We arrived in Kobe on a wet, dull morning but not too cold. A college brass band was playing pluckily on the quay in the rain to greet us before we faced a full face-to-face inspection with scanned passports, fingerprints and photos. For one horrible moment I thought all was up with me since my passport would not scan – turns out the newest UK ones are so faint that the scanner couldn’t register the details so they all had to be laboriously typed in!!
All this took quite some time as you can imagine but those on tours were called first but then every passenger had to vacate the boat before those not going ashore were allowed back on the ship.
Not much to say about Kobe since it was only a 10-minute bus ride to the station to board the Bullet Train. Kobe is a port in central Japan on the island of Honshu. It has a population of over 2m and was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1995. Hence the city is now known as Shin-Kobe – New Kobe.
I thought a map of Japan might help. Kobe is the port for Osaka in the centre of the map.
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