Steps: 30.848 (26,8km)
Temples: 54 + 55
Today we started off at Iyo-Kameoka by the sea where we left off yesterday. We had only a small portion of the official route left, and so we took our time and made plenty of small stops along the way.
When we walked by a small shop I couldn’t help but notice the … Read more
Steps: 35.199 (31,5km)
Temples: None
We only just got back after a long day of walking by the sea, so just a few picture highlights from today:
Steps: 28.469 (26,8km)
Temples: 52 + 53
Beautiful sunny day today, where we walked north out of Matsuyama towards temples 52.
On our way onwards towards temple 53, we had just started looking around for places to eat, when a man waved us over. Turns out the local … Read more
Steps: 23.507 (20,6km)
Temples: 47 + 48 + 49 + 50 + 51
My mom texted me this morning: “are you alright? Missed your daily update!”
Haha whoops sorry mom! – but yes we are all right it’s just that nothing really interesting happened yesterday. We ran around Matsuyama all day buying souvenirs and new clothes (neither of us felt … Read more
Steps: 34,579 (32,6km)
Temples: 80 + 81 + 82
Alarm was set for 5am this morning- we had a train to catch at 6.10. Despite the ungodly hour, we still woke up a few minutes before the alarm – it appears our inner clocks are starting to get attuned to the rhythm of the sun.
Steps: 31.239 (27,2km)
Temples: 3 + 2 + 1
Today’s walk took us over the last prefectural border crossing of the pilgrimage. Osaka pass crosses from Kagawa and back into Tokushima, and is one of the most pleasant mountain trails we have walked – wide, well kept and with a slow and steady elevation throughout.
It didn’t hurt … Read more
Steps: 31.194 (28,0km)
Temples: None
We left our hotel in the mountains relatively late this morning (~8.30am) because we wanted to wait out the last of the rain.
We had only made it a few hundred meters down the road before we were stopped by a group of older people, who had just parked their car to go visit the … Read more
Steps: 20.995 (16,0km)
Temples: 88
“お風呂どぞ” (“The bath is ready”). The inn keeper’s greeting, accompanied by a soft knock on our door.
Ahh! I’d been dreaming of hearing those words ever since we started today’s 774 meter climb to the top of Mount Nyotai.
Feet cold and bodies exhausted we happily slid into the steaming hot bath water.… Read more
Steps: 32.270 (22,2km) (+7,5)
Temples: 84 + 85 + 86 + 87
Temple fatigue is a real thing y’all and at some point I think every pilgrim starts to feel like the temples all kind of blend together and start to look alike.
But then there are days like today when you get to temples that really stand … Read more
