Kobe Hello all! So we got into port in Japan at about 8 am, but we weren’t able to get off the ship until about 11:30 because Japan has a crazy immigration process. First we had to get our temperature taken, then we had face to face inspections with immigration officials to check our passports, and then they even took our fingerprints. Once we finally got into Kobe, Michael, our friend Johnny and I got on the subway to go visit the hot springs on the other side of the city, past Rokko Mountain. It took us a while to find the right train to take, but we eventually made it to the little town that had the hot springs. Unfortunately there were no actual “hot springs” like we expected with waterfalls and natural pools, but
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