Places
This city is where the walk begins.
What is Nishinomiya?
This natural disaster happened in nineteen ninety five.
What is the Hanshin Earthquake?
This city is where the writer was born.
What is Kyoto
These empty spaces show where buildings were destroyed.
What is vacant lots?
This theme shows how time changes people and places, even when memories stay strong.
What is change?
This city is where the walk ends.
What is Kobe? (Sannomiya)
This year is when the writer takes the walk.
What is 1997?
This city is where the author spent most of his teenage years in.
What is Ashiya?
These natural features disappeared because of construction.
What is the sea and mountains?
This feeling describes how the writer feels about his hometown.
What is loss?
This area between Osaka and Kobe is called this.
What is Hanshin-kan?
Where did the author eat at ROKKO station.
What is McDonald's?
This city is where the author moved to for college and work
What is Tokyo?
This place was awfully quiet when the author visited it
What is his old high school?
This theme is described as hidden in society
What is violence?
This station is where the writer stops to go to a baseball game.
What is Ashiya Station?
This is the number of pizzas the restaurant has made.
What is 958,816?
What did the author think about the baseball game?
What is a game not worth seeing?
This place changed little from when the author was a child
What is Koshien stadium?
This emotion grows stronger as people get older, according to the writer.
What is loneliness?
This seaside town reminds the author more of his home than his own home town does.
What is Kanawaga?
According to the author despite all the violence and destruction, what is eternal?
What is Hanshin Fans?
This place is where the author loved to play at.
What is Ebisu Shrine?
What are some familiar places that because of the earthquake broke the author's link to his past?
What is his childhood home and neighborhood?
This question could never be answered.
What is "Who would we complain to anyway"?