I am going on an adventure

Tag: Japan

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A quick stop off.

    A quick stop. There was another Buddhist Temple not on the walk, but it was on the way, so I stopped at Chofukuji. Just some beauty in the middle of my walk. I needed it after last night. I had to take alieve and zophran to make through the night, and I kept a trashbag…

  • Today was a long day

    I walked nearly 29,000 steps. Most of it up or downhill. Some of it was paved, but a lot of it was steep and barely more than a deer trail or a dried up creek bed. I missed the snow and hail, luckily because it was cold and I did not want to be cold…

  • It was a dark and stormy day

    Today started off with me walking from my hotel to Temple 59 – Kokubunji. It was cold, windy and rainy. I passed by Imabari castle (picture from the previous day) and had to stop in a drug store to buy safety pins to fix my big hat.  The wind was so bad that it broke…

  • 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,…