While my sister was at work today, I ventured towards Kobe to do some hiking - I had instructions on how to get there wit my Hiking in Japan book, and two bottles of water, but it ended up being over 90 again today and just really too hot to be hiking, which sort of came back to bite me later on. It wasn't hard to get to Ashiya-gawa station, though I did get lost trying to find my way up the residential backstreets to where the rock garden officially started. Why are these things NEVER clearly marked anywhere?! So that took up some time and a lot of my water, because it was swelteringly hot and I was lost, but eventually I did find what I was looking for. There was a nice waterfall and
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