A Walk Around Shodoshima Day v Part II, Around Tonosho Mon Dec 28th As I caput towards the pagoda at
Saikoji I don't bother looking for signs equally it is clearly visible. I accept a left downwards a narrow lane as well as and thence begins a xv infinitesimal journeying equally I assay to honour my agency to it. I receive got unwittingly entered "
maze town" - a department of the one-time town that is genuinely maze like.
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| Main Gate to Saikoji Temple, Tonosho, Shodoshima |
I terminate upwards walking around as well as around as well as finally terminate upwards at the base of operations of the small-scale ascension that the pagoda is on but at that spot is construction hold upwards going on as well as access is blocked. I leave of absence along going around as well as eventually brand it at the vermillion temple gate. From the temple, access to the pagoda is likewise blocked past times construction. Getting out was much easier than getting inward - I should receive got looked for the sign. The side past times side temple is farther along the principal route towards Tonosho Port. This fourth dimension I carefully await for signs. I tin reckon on the map where it should be, but at that spot is no sign. Instead I wander upwards some steps through a
torii, Shinto gateway, to see the footling shrine. On my agency downwards I follow a footling side path as well as honour the small-scale temple building, release 64,
Matsukaze-an. Carrying on, passing the headquarters of the Shodoshima Pilgrimage Association, the side past times side ii stops are on the hillside higher upwards the port. Finding them is no slow chore equally it is 1 time over again a maze of narrow lanes as well as alleys. At 1 indicate the narrow route gets steeper as well as steeper as well as I realize I'm on the incorrect road. Eventually I inquire a local as well as larn slow directions.
Daijo Den as well as
Renge An are ii small-scale structures side past times side. There are likewise several other small-scale shrines as well as halls at the site. There are a few prissy statues as well as a stance over the harbour. Not far away is a large shrine as well as I halt inward for an explore earlier heading upwards the colina as well as over the overstep downwards to the due south coast.
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| Statue of Kobo Daishi exterior Kodokutsu Temple |
Off to the left is the cluster of hotels around the commencement of the
Angel Road, but earlier I caput correct downwards the coast I involve to honour the side past times side small-scale halt on the pilgrimage,
Kanro-an, release 59. Now its but a few kilometers downwards the placidity coast route until the footling line-fishing hamlet of Yanagi as well as the side past times side temple,
Kodokutsu, located at the base of operations of a cliff amongst a long concrete breakwater protecting the harbour. The entrance is marked past times a vermillion torii, which propose a shrine rather than a temple, but that is because the enshrined deity hither is Benzaiten, an originally Hindu Goddess amongst both Shinto as well as Buddhist associations. This is some other of the
cave temples that are thence numerous hither on Shodoshima, but this fourth dimension a bounding main cave rather than a mount cave. Just equally I brand it the one-time priest apologizes equally he has to larn off on an errand, thence I am left to explore past times myself. The entrance leads downwards to an antechamber, as well as and thence farther downwards into the cave, which propose that earlier all the concrete construction of the harbor the cave must receive got been but higher upwards bounding main level. It reminds me of a miniature version of the famous
Udo Jingu Shrine downwards inward
Miyazaki, which was a temple until the authorities decreed it a shrine. From hither I larn dorsum on the coast route as well as follow it around the southern tip of the peninsula as well as commencement to caput dorsum towards Tonosho Port. The route is straight, on the left a one-meter-high concrete wall as well as and thence a narrow beach of white sand as well as views to islands.
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| Shodoshima coastline |
On the correct a narrow hamlet alone ii or 3 houses deep. Over a small-scale headland as well as the scene repeats itself. Halfway through the minute hamlet I halt inward at the finally temple of the day, some other small-scale hermitage,
Jodo-an. The Sun is depression equally I finally larn dorsum into Tonosho as well as my room. I'm taking a few days off from my walk equally my married adult woman is coming to see as well as I volition pass a few days showing her some of the sights I've encountered inward the past times week, as well as thence the finally 3 days walk around the northern one-half of the island.
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