April 1.
Hard to believe that we just started the last month that we are going to be in Japan. Everyday brings new experiences and an appreciation of life. Our tent fly was soaked from the hard rain of last night. We packed it up and headed to the costal path. The morning sunrise was beautiful.
It sure seems that the day is going to bring us sunshine.
As we continued our walk along the coast we came to more campgrounds that had more people camped in them. We were glad that we had stopped when we did. Time to leave the coast and start heading up. We don’t have any temples to visit today, but we will start our climb up the mountain to temple 60, which we hope to visit tomorrow.
One of the areas that we passed was a field of the small trucks that are very common here. It didn’t surprise us when we saw how neatly this junk yard was organized.
We walk up a highway that doesn’t have a lot of traffic. In fact today we are just about on all roads, but they are secondary roads that see little car traffic.
Starting to leave the coast.
Don spots another mancover with cherry blossoms.
He is getting quite the collection.
We pass the vending machine warehouse. Unfortunately there were no operating vending machines here just ones to be sent out.
We cross a road and begin our climb upwards. Today has been one of the warmer days and we have been using our umbrellas as shade for a lot of the day. As we climb higher, the cherry trees come alive with their beauty.
We could never figure out the purpose of the yellow building.
There is a stream that we hike along to where we are spending the night.
Benjamin told us about this rest hut. It filled the requirements, no houses around, and bathrooms. When we first arrived there were several cars in the parking lot, but by 5 they were all gone. It was just us and the beautiful cherry tree that was next to the rest hut.
There is a spring across from the rest hut for water. We check out the trail that will take us up to Temple 60 then return to the hut to have some dinner and put on an extra layer of clothes before getting into our sleeping bags. It is going to be cold tonight.
Accommodation Rest Hut before climb to Temple 60
Miles hiked 15