Day 29: Don’t Worry, it Won’t Rain

Steps: 40.663 (40,3km)

Temples: None

Everyone knows that time is relative – but today we learned that distance is, too. Whereas yesterday’s 20k felt like a small lifetime, I was very surprised when Jonas told me that we had surpassed 40 today. I didn’t feel at all as tired as some of our other long days (Jonas unfortunately has a … Read more

Day 9: Hanami Heaven in Doll City

Steps: 20.518 (17,5km)

Temples: 19

They say you can’t buy happiness but this morning at temple 19 we decided to try anyway. Most temples sell an assortment of little charms and when we found some paper knots that promised happiness for the small price of only 200¥ we couldn’t resist.

It seemed to work because so far we have had … Read more