That's a bummer, but I'm glad you survived. Enjoy the trip. I love that location of CP Kobe. Hotel itself is nothing to write home about, but I love the view, having the shopping mall underneath, the Herb Garden ropeway, the Kitano neighborhood, and the fact that you can hop on the bullet train on a whim a couple minutes from the lobby. If you have time, go check out Kobe's enclosed shopping arcades, most notably the Motomachi street.

Even though the mall down below is dead, there are some good restaurants down there. There's a good kobe beef place, and I had an awesome tonkatsu with miso sauce on top. But my fave is the lobster restaurant Chunagon. They've got some great value set menus at lunch time.