The 31st Day in Japan The day begins for me today at 6 clock. I pack my things and put everything together, so I do not think so walking stick
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or pilgrim forget. The sun is shining, but in the mountains behind the Iyo Saijo Station (train station) are still hanging thick, dark rain clouds. Clock at 6:30, there are Japanese breakfast in the "Boogie Woogie Cafe, where I get but instead of tea or coffee ice water. Breakfast consists of an egg, which is thrown over the rice, a bowl of miso Soup, a packet of seaweed, a slice of salmon, finely shredded iceberg lettuce and pickled ginger, and the obligatory "Breakfast Ume Boshi" (pickled Japanese plum). Despite the "super water", what it is here at the station for free on a marble basin, I prefer the soda machine to get me to take a Coke. I stumble, because the cost-Cola is here both 120 and 150 yen, although it is the same size bottles each. Because guess someone was not paying attention! But Tommy Lee Jones, who here advertises "Boss", the coffee cans of the beverage company Suntory, a smile for me has left. No wonder, if you like a can warm and very strong coffee preference is, does the coffee no longer fun. Where is the because of the pleasure? If the coffee still "morning shot" is, we know that it's less about the Japanese pleasure rather than killed or waking up caffeine. That a people who can devote long hours of the tea ceremony, and for the pleasure in eating is paramount, can feast on Fertigtee and coffee will stay with me always incomprehensible.
Now I have returned, but on the pilgrimage route. Not so easy to retrieve, I miss the correct turn and run, unfortunately, the road No 11 along. I encounter students in uniforms and yellow hats, they cross a street with an older student as a student pilot. When the traffic here would not really necessary, but Japanese are always very careful to safety. I pass a moat, over which the spiders have been weaving their webs, glittering in the sunlight all so beautiful. But at the thought of maybe something bigger, Japanese spider, I shudder. Here are signs everywhere set up, remember where the saucer dogs dog owners working to eliminate the legacies. Since we are only roads, concrete trenches, but there is no green stripe, which is entirely appropriate. But there is also the establishment of drinking fountains, as the Water should be said as very good, has to be hanged for the Pilgrims equal a cup. But my path leads me further to the Matsuyama Expressway (highway) along. I see a strange building that looks like a temple. High on the mountain it stands and has such a rack mounted on the roof.
I come from a machine that says "Potato Boy" is over, that's probably a machine for potato chips and also stands for a chewing gum next to it. In a cozy cabin that is decorated very imaginative, I'm a little short break. Or is it a small shrine, I do not know for sure. A sign on the street give me information that now comes Niihama City and from a distance I can see the Ehime Prefecture Museum of Natural Sciences. It is a cone-shaped building, where you can learn about dinosaurs and other science topics. It boasts the largest planetarium in the world, but for a short visit, it is too early.
I pass a building that reminds me of a castle. Whether this is another one of Love Hotel, an hour hotel for couples, which is used as the living conditions at home are still fairly limited, and above all the walls to the neighbors quite thin? A sign has it as "Cinderella's Castle", but what it is, in effect, a Love Hotel or just a sumptuous tourist hotel stays hidden from me. Soon after the castle as a house is on my way in the front yard I admire an old pine tree and the roof and garden wall is provided with beautiful skylight like dragons and luck gods. When I see a photo shop, I took advantage of the situation and ask if they carry lens cloths or "lens cleaner". The head of the shop immediately puts itself on hand. For sale, he has this disposable wipes with cleaning liquid, as I know her from Germany, but he could me the same lens quite clean here on the ground. When I ask him about the price for his services, contends the "osettai" So pilgrims present. I thank you sincerely and in the next shop, a small "corner shop" where I want to increase food, me, the Japanese woman keeps behind the counter with the words "Chotto matte" ("Please wait a moment") back. She asks me a bag keki with Dora, a kind of wafer biscuit filled with refried beans and a bottle of green tea as a gift pilgrims together. I must be careful now that the pilgrim trail soon bends. My English-speaking plan has a "meat shop (butcher) recorded at this point, then to the COOP store. No - it is not the exception, German COOP-range, even though I already stores such as "savings" have seen in Japan. I walk the length of the road, here there is no sidewalk and watch I must say that I am not with my walking stick in one of the many holes threader the sewers. In Japan, the drains can be covered with concrete slabs, but all have a grip hole So they'll need to raise it, because something should be blocked. But one has to wonder how many times you as a pilgrim but then lands a direct hit right into the hole. If the reaction is not fast enough then, you can then cancel with such adversity quite a pilgrim's staff. But my Kobo Daishi (symbolized by my walking stick) will survive the whole tour, if I must admit that he in the end, considerably shorter than the beginning.
over the river Ashitami me my way into the Yamane Park, where I put in a toilet house a break. I let my "Dora Keki" of which Doraemon, the robot cat from the future takes its name, since they are his favorite food taste. Although it is only in mid April, but it is already a real sweat, sometimes quite apart from the fact that the sun burns from the sky quite different here than in Europe. So you see walking around with Japanese umbrellas and UV-proof gloves and face protection, which is fully justified. I have also been adapted and try to never take a break in the sun, but still only a shady spot visit so that I do not sunburn capture. I walk right on the Matsuyama Expressway along the pilgrimage route is slightly raised, so I can look from above on the Mishima Shrine, with its concrete Tori (gate). But for a flying visit I'm currently too lazy, then I would have to heave my luggage back on the long concrete staircase. After that it becomes difficult to find the way because the signs is only moderate. When I follow the path further from the highway, he leads me across the parking lot of a golf club. From here it does have a fantastic view, but it is a roundabout way, I have taken because of poor signage. A short time later driving a silver Car slowly passed me. Honks stops remains are only once - then a small woman jumps out of the car and gives me such a packed Teeküchlein. I provided only that the woman has probably seen me on the golf course and jumped into her car. The poor thing almost crying with excitement. "Ohenro" (pilgrimage) she calls me again and again and disappears as suddenly as it appeared. I still have adrenaline inside them, as it has with me but then Hupfer jump all right. I walk here beside the busy highway in the blazing sun, it reeks of exhaust fumes, I must be careful not to lose the way and then something like that. But fortunately, the trail is about 10 km to a branch in the city of Shikoku Chuuo, where the next Bangai temple stands.
As I cross over the road No. 11, I hear songs, whether coming from the temple? I run only on the card, as there are no pilgrims characters. I inquire still a little boy to the temple Enmeiji, but eventually I find him after all. I always have problems when it goes through residential areas, since the card is not absolutely clear whether the registered street only a small way, or at least a multi-lane asphalt road.
digression Bangai temple No. 12 Enmeiji (延命 时)
"The Temple of Longevity" was of Gogi (668-749), and it Jizo Bosatsu dedicated. But the temple is also according to legend Izarimatsuji, "Temple of Krüppelpinie" or those sold here amulets (Senmai-Doshi), "Temple of Senmai-Doshi" called. Senmai Doshi are small strips of paper on which the name of Buddha stands. It literally means "1000 sinkings and the believer takes this paper discs with a little water, while he Gōhōgō mantra (word formula," Namu Daishi Henjo Kongo ") three times recited. This income is said to cure diseases and provide for an easy birth. The Temple sent the leaflets all over Japan, as well as spiritual believers they Good luck to use. The Used goes back to a legend, is said to have healed when Kobo Daishi a disabled man by administration of such Senmai Doshi. In gratitude, the man was from Daishi ordain as a monk and was named Hōnin. Another legend tells of the healing of a hindrance give the man who had settled on the "Krüppelpinie. At once the man had recovered, but died on the aerial parts of the tree, only the roots survived.
The temple looks quite modest - everything takes place in a small building. There is no goal, only a small bridge, the Daishi Hall is at the same time, the pilgrim's office or is it is the Hondo (main hall). A sign points me to the "Izarimatsu" said Krüppelpinie, but is under a roof here, a tree trunk, as I have seen him in Bangai No. 11. The sign is a much larger pine represented here than now stands before me. So I have to assume that it is once again dealing with a new planting, not the original. I ring to the priest, who fills me my pilgrimage book. But the Senmai Doshi I can find anywhere, although there are a whole variety of posters available, into which the Götterbildchen that you can glue each Nokyochō (pilgrim book) entry is replaced. Actually
I wanted today, "Ehime truck station would, but I can see from the map that there is a Youth Hostel (Youth Hostel), I change my plans. I have to run now for about 8 kilometers and with a blanket in a Family Mart (24-hour store) with provisions. I have to watch again so I do not cross too early or too late in the highway, because there is not a single pilgrim signs. When I meet near a small wooden hut with a worker safety helmet, I ask him if the Youth Hostel is possibly at the temple site of the Shin Chokkuji, we are facing now. He tried the Internet seim phone for several minutes, but then I can no details . Report So I climb up the long stairway to the temple and am lucky, after I'm wrong as counterfeit by the building, I had wrongly denied a woman as a "matron", but still I meet a young woman. Actually, they had closed and holiday, but since I bekniee that I need a room, she finally agrees to me to rent a tatami room for 3,300 yen. Ofuro are correct today, since I'm probably the only guest today, but hands me a hot shower. However, I would have liked green tea, or at least hot water, but after my room cover, the lady was gone. So I eat chocolate biscuits and water from the tap for dinner. Although I would have to move from the hut at the temple gate or a drink from a vending machine, but for that I'm just too exhausted. When the sun goes down, I enjoy the fantastic view from my room on the illuminated city Shikoku Seto Inland Sea and the Chuuo.
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