A Walk Around Kyushu Day 29
Hayato to Kagoshima City
Mon July 29th, 2013
It's an overcast too showery twenty-four hr stream every bit I brand my means to temple #43, Hojo-in. Several times I opened upward my umbrella for curt showers every bit I halt inwards at a few shrines before reaching the temple. It's a fairly pocket-sized urban temple alongside non much to see, though I create notice some drinking glass air current bells alongside prayers/wishes written on newspaper hanging from the clapper. I don't scream back e'er having seen such things before.
After a curt walk I accomplish the concrete shoreline of Kagoshima Bay. From hither the principal route hugs the coast all the means downward to Kagoshima city. Ever since I starting fourth dimension studied the maps of the route of the pilgrimage I create got been looking forrad to this section, mount to i side, H2O on the other, too views of Sakurajima all the way. I follow the feeder route too am too so confronted alongside an extremely busy route alongside no sidewalk!!
Of course, roads without sidewalks are commonplace, but they volition ofttimes create got a white job alongside a meter or to a greater extent than of shoulder that is ostensibly for pedestrians, but hither the shoulder is nigh 15cms, too alongside the spray coming from the speeding trucks too cars it is actually unsafe too impossible to walk. I am livid!
Pedestrians, exterior of many urban nub centers, are merely ignored past times route planners. There is no means I tin safely walk downward this route without causing the traffic to ho-hum correct downward to top me. I banking enterprise jibe my maps too meet that the entirely other route would hold upward to caput inland too acquire through the mountains which would hateful doubling the distance too quest a lot of climbing. There is merely no provision for anyone to walk to Kagoshima. And why should in that location be? Pedestrians create non contribute to the economic scheme too are so a waste materials of space. The entirely solution is to backtrack a few kilometers to the final station too create got a local develop downward the coast too hope to discovery a house where the route has a sidewalk. The develop job too route run correct adjacent to each other too looking out the window nigh half-way downward the coast I meet where the sidewalk begins so alight at the adjacent station.
The sidewalk is wide... at to the lowest degree 3 meters... too I slow start to lose my anger at the route builders. At i signal the route divides too inwards the infinite betwixt is a pocket-sized shrine built roughly a stone outcropping. An oasis of stillness betwixt the rushing traffic. The pelting seems to create got stopped but the clouds that whorl overhead are nighttime too swift. Sakurajima pierces the clouds so I can't say if it is spewing smoke similar it does so often, too and so it happens again..... the bloody sidewalk ends!!!!
The gap betwixt the white job too the guardrail is entirely centimeters, but this fourth dimension I am non going to walk dorsum 4 or five kilometers to the station too create got a train, I am going to walk too to hell alongside the traffic. I stride off every bit fast every bit I can. Behind me is the hiss of air brakes every bit trucks ho-hum correct downward to top me. I am certain the traffic is backing upward too I am existence cursed past times drivers for whom fourth dimension is money, but I am a human existence too this is non an throughway off limits to humans... dammit I create got every bit much correct to locomote this route every bit the vehicles.
About 500 meters along I come upward to a pocket-sized lay-by alongside a omnibus halt too checking the timetable I larn that a omnibus should hold upward along inwards 10 minutes so I sit down too wait. I know that on Shikoku where in that location are many walking pilgrims, complaints past times them nigh the unsafe lack of sidewalks has led to the structure of novel sidewalks inwards many places, but every bit far every bit I tin say I am entirely the 2nd mortal to walk this Kyushu Pilgrimage, it's designed for automobile pilgrims, so it would create me no practiced to complain. The omnibus comes every bit promised, too I caput into Kagoshima too my hotel, the Cent Inn. I am a few hours before than I expected so caput out to explore. Tomorrow I volition acquire dorsum to the due north of the urban nub too walk across it.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 28
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Hayato to Kagoshima City
Mon July 29th, 2013
It's an overcast too showery twenty-four hr stream every bit I brand my means to temple #43, Hojo-in. Several times I opened upward my umbrella for curt showers every bit I halt inwards at a few shrines before reaching the temple. It's a fairly pocket-sized urban temple alongside non much to see, though I create notice some drinking glass air current bells alongside prayers/wishes written on newspaper hanging from the clapper. I don't scream back e'er having seen such things before.
After a curt walk I accomplish the concrete shoreline of Kagoshima Bay. From hither the principal route hugs the coast all the means downward to Kagoshima city. Ever since I starting fourth dimension studied the maps of the route of the pilgrimage I create got been looking forrad to this section, mount to i side, H2O on the other, too views of Sakurajima all the way. I follow the feeder route too am too so confronted alongside an extremely busy route alongside no sidewalk!!
Of course, roads without sidewalks are commonplace, but they volition ofttimes create got a white job alongside a meter or to a greater extent than of shoulder that is ostensibly for pedestrians, but hither the shoulder is nigh 15cms, too alongside the spray coming from the speeding trucks too cars it is actually unsafe too impossible to walk. I am livid!
Pedestrians, exterior of many urban nub centers, are merely ignored past times route planners. There is no means I tin safely walk downward this route without causing the traffic to ho-hum correct downward to top me. I banking enterprise jibe my maps too meet that the entirely other route would hold upward to caput inland too acquire through the mountains which would hateful doubling the distance too quest a lot of climbing. There is merely no provision for anyone to walk to Kagoshima. And why should in that location be? Pedestrians create non contribute to the economic scheme too are so a waste materials of space. The entirely solution is to backtrack a few kilometers to the final station too create got a local develop downward the coast too hope to discovery a house where the route has a sidewalk. The develop job too route run correct adjacent to each other too looking out the window nigh half-way downward the coast I meet where the sidewalk begins so alight at the adjacent station.
The sidewalk is wide... at to the lowest degree 3 meters... too I slow start to lose my anger at the route builders. At i signal the route divides too inwards the infinite betwixt is a pocket-sized shrine built roughly a stone outcropping. An oasis of stillness betwixt the rushing traffic. The pelting seems to create got stopped but the clouds that whorl overhead are nighttime too swift. Sakurajima pierces the clouds so I can't say if it is spewing smoke similar it does so often, too and so it happens again..... the bloody sidewalk ends!!!!
The gap betwixt the white job too the guardrail is entirely centimeters, but this fourth dimension I am non going to walk dorsum 4 or five kilometers to the station too create got a train, I am going to walk too to hell alongside the traffic. I stride off every bit fast every bit I can. Behind me is the hiss of air brakes every bit trucks ho-hum correct downward to top me. I am certain the traffic is backing upward too I am existence cursed past times drivers for whom fourth dimension is money, but I am a human existence too this is non an throughway off limits to humans... dammit I create got every bit much correct to locomote this route every bit the vehicles.
About 500 meters along I come upward to a pocket-sized lay-by alongside a omnibus halt too checking the timetable I larn that a omnibus should hold upward along inwards 10 minutes so I sit down too wait. I know that on Shikoku where in that location are many walking pilgrims, complaints past times them nigh the unsafe lack of sidewalks has led to the structure of novel sidewalks inwards many places, but every bit far every bit I tin say I am entirely the 2nd mortal to walk this Kyushu Pilgrimage, it's designed for automobile pilgrims, so it would create me no practiced to complain. The omnibus comes every bit promised, too I caput into Kagoshima too my hotel, the Cent Inn. I am a few hours before than I expected so caput out to explore. Tomorrow I volition acquire dorsum to the due north of the urban nub too walk across it.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 28
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