A Walk Around Kyushu
Day 67, Sasebo to Yoshii
Lord's Day March ninth 2014
It is nevertheless nighttime every bit I caput off. I get got a long agency to give-up the ghost today. The get-go pilgrimage temple, position out 72, Korin-in is simply i kilometer N of my hotel inwards downtown Sasebo.
It's a minor urban temple alongside by in addition to large concrete buildings, but I tin brand out a Fudo Myo statue. From hither my route heads N upwards a narrow valley filled alongside city. The heaven starts to lighten in addition to the traffic increases. The route narrows every bit it reaches the top in addition to downward below I encounter a river valley running E in addition to west.
The adjacent temple is downward the valley a few kilometers in addition to the adjacent i afterward that is upwards the valley to the correct hence I create upwards one's hear to cheat in addition to jump on a develop that volition get got me downward the valley. I loathe walking dorsum along a route I get got simply walked. I instruct off at Motoyama in addition to the Sun has come upwards up. I caput southward across the river in addition to primary route towards temple 74, Tozenji.
Towering over the entrance to the temple is a huge ancient tree illuminated inwards the golden low-cal of the sunrise. There is no-one virtually in addition to the temple buildings are nevertheless locked up. I am hoping to take in v of the temples today, hence that is 2 downward in addition to 3 to go.
I caput upwards the valley which is actually simply a suburb of Sasebo fifty-fifty though a mount stands betwixt it downtown. After passing where the primary route in addition to develop business comes downward the mount from Sasebo it starts to quieten downward a piddling in addition to give-up the ghost to a greater extent than rural than urban.
The route climbs gently in addition to I halt inwards at a few shrines. Then the valley narrows in addition to the route climbs steeply in addition to I am looking downward the valley alongside the hazy metropolis far downward below. Its right away completely rural. I am surprised past times the entrance agency to Saikoji, temple 74, every bit it is wide, long, in addition to lined alongside lanterns in addition to trees, suggesting that it is going to last a large temple.
And it is, it must get got been quite a large complex inwards its day, though right away it all seems a flake run down. There are a lot of dissimilar halls in addition to shrines, in addition to several gardens but they are overgrown. I create upwards one's hear I am going to get got to create some question to uncovering out the history of such a large temple. I operate out past times the side entrance in addition to am surprised to encounter a huge statue of Fudo Myo-o with an altar beneath it. While non the biggest I get got seen on this pilgrimage it is surely big.
I deport on upwards the loma in addition to every bit it gets steeper my footstep slows. After a few kilometers I plough left in addition to caput towards the mountains. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 long tunnel volition get got me through to the valley on the other side which I volition in addition to hence caput down. As I operate inwards the tunnel a sign tells me it is at 360 meters inwards a higher identify bounding main level. Quite a climb for the day, but I please inwards the cognition that for the residue of the twenty-four hours I volition last going downhill.
After emerging from the tunnel the route descends rapidly to the river below in addition to and hence turns westward in addition to heads downstream. It's completely rural right away until I come upwards into the minor town of Sechibu where I uncovering a minor rock edifice that houses the local coal mining museum.
The entry fee is i I am comfortable alongside - it's complimentary - but beingness from a coal mining household unit of measurement myself I would get got paid to give-up the ghost inwards anyway. It was non a huge museum, mainly the tools of the trade, but most interesting were several quondam dark in addition to white photos enlarged upwards to wall size, i of which depicted a grouping of men in addition to women, stripped to the waist, covered inwards coal dust, sitting in addition to eating their tiffin downward a mineshaft.
I had read that inwards the early on days of coal mining inwards Nippon it was real much a household unit of measurement thing alongside married adult man in addition to married adult woman teams, the men doing the excavation in addition to the wives hauling it out, in addition to this photograph seems to confirm that.
I deport on downriver towards the adjacent 2 temples. Temple position out 76, Saifukuji, is upwards on the hillside on the southward side of the valley, but fortunately the agency to it is past times a long route that gently climbs away from the river rather than past times a direct route direct up. Approaching the temple at that topographic point are lines of Jizo all wearing dissimilar colored bibs.
The path leads to quite a large, modern theater which I presume to last the priest's home, in addition to a minor temple building, but the existent surprise is behind where at that topographic point is a huge cave inwards the cliff side. Actually its non actually a cave anymore every bit the roof has collapsed to brand a natural rock bridge. In the nooks in addition to crannies of the overhangs are a multifariousness of minor shrines in addition to altars. Statues of Fudo Myo predominate. It was a delightful surprise.
I caput dorsum downward to the river in addition to primary route in addition to deport on downstream. I've in all probability walked around thirty kilometers today in addition to I start to instruct weary. My map shows a few shrines simply off the primary route but I can't last bothered to brand the detour. By tardily afternoon I tin encounter temple 75, Ohashikannonji, on the mountainside on the other side of the valley but create upwards one's hear I can't confront the climb, hence that volition last where I start on my adjacent leg inwards a calendar week or so. I jump on a develop from Yoshii in addition to caput dorsum to my room inwards Sasebo.
This has been simply a iv twenty-four hours leg of my walk. And I reckon I get got right away walked at to the lowest degree 1,930 kilometers. Probably a lot more, Whenever I role a tracking app on my tablet it reports that I walk virtually 20-25% farther than Google maps estimated distances, in all probability due to all the detours.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 66
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 68 Yoshii
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Day 67, Sasebo to Yoshii
Lord's Day March ninth 2014
It is nevertheless nighttime every bit I caput off. I get got a long agency to give-up the ghost today. The get-go pilgrimage temple, position out 72, Korin-in is simply i kilometer N of my hotel inwards downtown Sasebo.
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| Ancient Tree At Tozenji Temple |
The adjacent temple is downward the valley a few kilometers in addition to the adjacent i afterward that is upwards the valley to the correct hence I create upwards one's hear to cheat in addition to jump on a develop that volition get got me downward the valley. I loathe walking dorsum along a route I get got simply walked. I instruct off at Motoyama in addition to the Sun has come upwards up. I caput southward across the river in addition to primary route towards temple 74, Tozenji.
Towering over the entrance to the temple is a huge ancient tree illuminated inwards the golden low-cal of the sunrise. There is no-one virtually in addition to the temple buildings are nevertheless locked up. I am hoping to take in v of the temples today, hence that is 2 downward in addition to 3 to go.
I caput upwards the valley which is actually simply a suburb of Sasebo fifty-fifty though a mount stands betwixt it downtown. After passing where the primary route in addition to develop business comes downward the mount from Sasebo it starts to quieten downward a piddling in addition to give-up the ghost to a greater extent than rural than urban.
The route climbs gently in addition to I halt inwards at a few shrines. Then the valley narrows in addition to the route climbs steeply in addition to I am looking downward the valley alongside the hazy metropolis far downward below. Its right away completely rural. I am surprised past times the entrance agency to Saikoji, temple 74, every bit it is wide, long, in addition to lined alongside lanterns in addition to trees, suggesting that it is going to last a large temple.
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| Statue of Fudo Myo-o |
I deport on upwards the loma in addition to every bit it gets steeper my footstep slows. After a few kilometers I plough left in addition to caput towards the mountains. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 long tunnel volition get got me through to the valley on the other side which I volition in addition to hence caput down. As I operate inwards the tunnel a sign tells me it is at 360 meters inwards a higher identify bounding main level. Quite a climb for the day, but I please inwards the cognition that for the residue of the twenty-four hours I volition last going downhill.
After emerging from the tunnel the route descends rapidly to the river below in addition to and hence turns westward in addition to heads downstream. It's completely rural right away until I come upwards into the minor town of Sechibu where I uncovering a minor rock edifice that houses the local coal mining museum.
The entry fee is i I am comfortable alongside - it's complimentary - but beingness from a coal mining household unit of measurement myself I would get got paid to give-up the ghost inwards anyway. It was non a huge museum, mainly the tools of the trade, but most interesting were several quondam dark in addition to white photos enlarged upwards to wall size, i of which depicted a grouping of men in addition to women, stripped to the waist, covered inwards coal dust, sitting in addition to eating their tiffin downward a mineshaft.
I had read that inwards the early on days of coal mining inwards Nippon it was real much a household unit of measurement thing alongside married adult man in addition to married adult woman teams, the men doing the excavation in addition to the wives hauling it out, in addition to this photograph seems to confirm that.
I deport on downriver towards the adjacent 2 temples. Temple position out 76, Saifukuji, is upwards on the hillside on the southward side of the valley, but fortunately the agency to it is past times a long route that gently climbs away from the river rather than past times a direct route direct up. Approaching the temple at that topographic point are lines of Jizo all wearing dissimilar colored bibs.
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| Cave at Saifukuji |
I caput dorsum downward to the river in addition to primary route in addition to deport on downstream. I've in all probability walked around thirty kilometers today in addition to I start to instruct weary. My map shows a few shrines simply off the primary route but I can't last bothered to brand the detour. By tardily afternoon I tin encounter temple 75, Ohashikannonji, on the mountainside on the other side of the valley but create upwards one's hear I can't confront the climb, hence that volition last where I start on my adjacent leg inwards a calendar week or so. I jump on a develop from Yoshii in addition to caput dorsum to my room inwards Sasebo.
This has been simply a iv twenty-four hours leg of my walk. And I reckon I get got right away walked at to the lowest degree 1,930 kilometers. Probably a lot more, Whenever I role a tracking app on my tablet it reports that I walk virtually 20-25% farther than Google maps estimated distances, in all probability due to all the detours.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 66
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 68 Yoshii
© JapanVisitor.com Sumber https://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/