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The Alien Trip Vol.02 Part 1 Official DIGGER Kana Yukawa and Kiara from Italy share their travel adventures at Okamoto Shopping Arcade in Higashi Nada.

You deserve an alien chop! Let me unveil what you don’t know about Kobe from the viewpoint of an alien (foreigner) ♪ Your navigator for this alien trip is the official DIGGER Kana Yukawa who just returned from Spain. I hope you enjoy reading about my incident-filled adventure with an alien who sends reports to her home country about the trip full of misunderstandings and overlooked things due to the Latino mode I was in. Oh! Higashi Nada. It’s the easternmost place in Kobe City. Nada Go Goh (Five Villages of Nada) has long been famous in Japan as the home of high-quality sake. When Kobe and Ashiya Cities were founded, they both wanted to incorporate Nada Go Goh into their city because it was such a wealthy region. There was even a proposal to make it independent and call the region Konan City. Kobe won by one vote, so Nada Go Goh was incorporated into this city. However, at this time, a region that should have been called “Nishi (west) Nada” had already taken the name “Nada” so with no choice left, Nada Go Goh was placed in “Higashi (east) Nada,” being called “Nada” since ancient times. Too confusing! Anyway, this Higashi Nada wouldn’t have been the Kobe area for this investigation if it had been incorporated into Ashiya or if it had become an independent city 60 years ago. Our target area is Okamoto, the town representing wealth with the atmosphere of rich people and the place famous for cafés and sweets. Here I am again, with my naturally blond hair, about to carry out my mission to dig deep! Fellow moms who might encounter me in the condo elevator, please do me a big favor and pretend you don’t see me! [Sankita Amore Square] 9:00 am, Paiyama, Sannomiya. I am to meet Kiara, my companion for today’s investigation. She is from Bologna, Italy, where the world’s oldest university is located and one of the cities in Europe that represents intelligence. After her dedicated studies in Japanese at University of Venice, she continued her studies at Hiroshima University. Currently she is a student at Osaka University. She is an intelligent woman who has won an award for her research on Tomoe Yamashiro, a female scholar who committed to the protection of the vulnerable and of the rights of post-war female farmers. By the way, the name “Kiara” apparently means intelligent in Italian. As the name suggests, a cool-looking beautiful woman appeared a little late. “I’m sorry! I wasn’t sure where Paiyama was.” I wasn’t surprised. Well, Paiyama is the name of the square with the bumpy hills on the north side of Hankyu Sannomiya Station East Exit or the JR Sannomiya Station West Exit. Even I didn’t know the name until I started writing this series. “I’m sorry. It must have been difficult to find Paiyama. The real name of the plaza is apparently “Sankita Amore Hiroba.” Before I even finished explaining, I realized how embarrassing it was to say this name to an Italian. Besides, it’s commonly known as oppaiyama (breast mountains)!

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