I am going on an adventure

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  • An accidental easy day.

    When trying to plan places to stay several days out, I didn’t plan on hitting Temple 67 yesterday, so today was 3 temples. Two of which were right next to each other. I grabbed a bus down to close to Temples 68 and 69. I saw a Shinto Temple close to it and decided I…

  • Decisions

    After I took the gondola down, I had to decide on walking to the next temple or take buses. I could walk there faster, so I decided to do that, even though I had my full bag with me. Most days, I try to leave my big bag at the hotel and only take a…

  • Rainy day continued

  • Walking in the rain

    I woke up and grabbed the train to the base of the next temple. This one was the tallest of them.  I grabbed a bus from the station, which took me to the bottom of the mountain. I walked 3.2 km uphill in the rain, and by walk, I meant power walked. I made it…

  • A tough day into a rest day.

    After waking up at Nojima house, I walked to the train and made my way to the bottom of Temple 65 – Sankakuji. 351 meter up. About a 3.5-mile walk uphill. The day was cold with on and off rain. It started off paved and then turned into a path that was barely a trail…

  • Taking an easy day.

    I slept in for the first time this trip. 730am. Normally, I’m up between 130am and 530am. After stopping off at Temple Chofukuji. I made my way to Nojima guest house. The couple who run it are great people. Not knowing, I met the wife the day prior at the inner sanctum of temple 61…

  • Onto more temples

    He drove us to Temple 56 Taisanji. Another temple on the outskirts of town. Temple 57 Eifukuji. Each side of the main hall are copies of the “Buddhist feet rocks” from the temple in India where Shaka achieved enlightenment.  We drove up to Temple 58 – Senyūji. This one was 250 meters high, built in…

  • Continued

    When posting a lot of pictures,  the app I am using messes up, so on busy days, I will need to break up my accounting. We drove to Temple 54, Enmeiji. This temple prospered as a temple for scholarly learning. I thought my hotel was close, and I started walking from here. It turns out…

  • Fortuitous meetings

    I started off the dat grabbing a taxi back to near where I left off Sunday.  I went to Temple 52 – Taisanji. There, I met a couple from Singapore who gifted me a Mala (prayer beads) I met a man from Taiwan who thought I was in my 20s, and we ended up spending…

  • Catching up

    I missed Temples 44 and 45 this weekend due to not having a reliable way home. So I woke up and caught the bus up into the mountains. Temple 44 – Daihōji was not too bad of a walk to get to. Once I got out of town, I was surrounded by old growth forest,…