I walked from Imabari to Iyo-Sakurai. After 7 hours and a hot, sunny day (25 degrees Celsius), I thought it was enough and took the train to Iyo-Nyugawa. Total walking distance was 23 km (total: 823 km).
I visited 4 temples, one of which was very nice: T59 Kokubunji, lying high in the mountains. The altitude which had to be mastered within a relatively short distance to get there was 320 m. As I said before, the temples which are difficult to reach are the more interesting ones. A group of happy young children added to the good feeling I had at this site.
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| Young Japanese children visiting Kokubunji Temple |
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| Temple entrance door |
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| Konkubunji Temple (T59) |
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| From the hight of Konkubunji one can look down on Imabari, the Seto Inland Sea, the bridges and islands |
And guess whom I met a second time? The Japanese o-Henro with the golden name slip (see post 32) who was today at this place to approach foreign pilgrims to write a message for him and to take a joint photo, which he will later on print out and glue it onto the text page.
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| The man with the "golden name slip" |
Early in the morning after breakfast at 7:30, Jim and Suzuki-san were heading with their bikes to Takamatsu (150 km), the day before they came from Hiroshima Airport via the Shimanami Kaido to Imabari (120 km). The up and down on the bridges and the mountains on the islands have to taken into consideration as well. I certainly could not do it.
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| Jim and Suzuki-san in front of our hotel in Imabari |
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| Off they go: 150 km to Takamatsu |
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