I am going on an adventure

Tag: traveling

  • 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,…

  • Back to basics. Walking.

    This was a long day. I woke up and got my taxi to Temple 46 – Jōruriji. Founded in 708. It was restored in 812. There is a tree that is over 1000 years old (I don’t know if I took a picture of it). This was a nice suburban temple. Being a weekend, there…

  • Travel day.

    Made it to Matsuyama. Had some ramen, matcha tirimasu, and walked around the city until my check-in. Can’t get to the next temples until Monday… well, I can, but with a reduced schedule, it might mean I would get trapped in the middle of nowhere. It’s easier for me to wait till Monday for those…

  • An easy day.

    Woke up and jumped on a long and winding bus back the way I came, but this time, I did not get to stop at the overlook. Temple 39 – Enkōji, was founded in 724, with a carved statue. This site has an eye washing well to help with eye sickness and is believed to…

  • Moving forward.

    I left Kochi city during a rain storm and walked my way to the train station. I am getting very good at navigating the public transit system here. Google Maps help, except when you are riding on the train or bus, then it just keeps updating new routes.  Temple 37 – Iwamotoji – was tucked…

  • Back to Kochi.

    Started off the morning and took a taxi to the top of Temple 35 – Kiyotakiji. Was able to walk down fine, but after several near falls on other mountains, my leg injury from last year started to hurt, and the knee I hurt by the car hitting me and horse kicking me (2 separate…