A Walk Around Shodoshima Day three The Mito Peninsula Sabbatum Dec 26 It's to a greater extent than or less other beautiful sunny twenty-four hr catamenia every bit I start out the 3rd twenty-four hr catamenia of my walk along the
Shodoshima pilgrimage route. From my invitee menage I accept the omnibus a few kilometers to Kusukabe Port as well as caput into the pocket-size side streets simply inland. Here I respect temples 22 as well as 23,
Minemoyana-an as well as
Hondo, non far apart. Hondo was quite delightful, a simple, square, wooden hall amongst an quondam Chinese fashion tile roof, made all the ameliorate past times the golden shafts of the sunrise illuminating it. Back to the master copy route as well as I caput due west along the coast for most a kilometer earlier heading into the pocket-size village. There are a grouping of iv temples here, 24 through 27, inwards a niggling over a kilometer of walking.
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| Hondo-ji at sunrise |
The first,
Anyoji, is a pocket-size rural fashion temple. All the buildings are depression without the large roofs typical of temples. There is a Daishi Hall hither as well as a damn domestic dog that volition non halt yapping. From hither the signs betoken upwardly a footpath that climbs through the woods to a pocket-size hermitage,
Seiganji-an, unreachable past times car. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 niggling farther along the path as well as at that topographic point is a sacred boundary amongst a statue of
Kobo Daishi inwards 1 pocket-size construction as well as a large Jizo inwards another. There are hundreds of springs connected to Kobo Daishi, but this 1 seems to hold upwardly specially good known. Asphalt begins 1 time to a greater extent than hither as well as its downhill to to a greater extent than or less other pocket-size hermitage, position out 27, as well as and thence a pocket-size temple,
Amidaji, earlier rejoining the master copy road.
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| Anyoji Temple, Shodoshima |
Six temples inwards 2 hours. Along the master copy route I top the entrance to
Olive Park, 1 of the master copy resorts on the island. Sticking upwardly higher upwardly the olive orchards is what I presume to hold upwardly a mistaken windmill. I besides top the youth hostel that I had hoped to base of operations myself at but they are shut for renovations. After one-half an hr of the busy master copy route I plough off as well as caput downwards the
Mito Peninsula. There is almost no traffic every bit the coast route climbs higher upwardly a succession of niggling angling villages. The views dorsum along the Shodoshima coast as well as across to
Shikoku are delightful inwards the golden light. I top a trouble of most 20 TV antennas planted along the side of the road. Down below is a pocket-size angling hamlet as well as I gauge they would non teach whatsoever reception otherwise. It's a real pleasant walk snaking downwards the coast as well as and thence I accomplish Mito, a pocket-size hamlet inwards a relatively broad valley. I respect temple 28,
Yakushi-Do, inwards front end of a large cemetery as well as adjacent to the local shrine.
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| The ferry from Takamatsu coming into Kusakabe Port |
In the niggling residue surface area I cheque my maps, produce got a hot drinkable from the vending machine as well as ponder my choices. The adjacent temple is on the other side of the peninsula, as well as the coast route carries on downwards to where the nation narrows earlier cutting over. The pilgrim signs betoken to the footpath that goes upwardly the mount inwards front end of me. I opt to follow the pilgrim trail that switchbacks upwardly through the narrow lanes of the hamlet occupying the lower slopes. I am shortly out of the hamlet as well as climbing steeply through the woods. Once upwardly peak the path follows the ridge amongst steep slopes dropping away on both sides. I top a monument where Kobo Daishi met a local human being as well as and thence the path starts to descend.
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