The 46th Day in Japan Today, while I woke up at 5.10 clock, my morning meditation I Muryōkō-in but then pinched because I'm too easily broken. Hajo is out already and I can then tell them at breakfast. We will now leave the Koyasan, Hajo to go to Nara and I will switch the flight at the airport Kansai pay a visit, as I have from the Internet portal "Upandgo" still not received information about transfers. But I am pessimistic. Mother and daughter Berlin, I met on Shikoku, and had stopped them before they are actual departure date, pilgrims tour, transfer could not pull the trigger and had the money for a new flight. I would be happy to at last with my many visions and pictures home, and to report those back home about my adventures. But as it looks, I think I will need an alternative program, because for the fare I could get here in Japan for some time, if I live modestly, by beating. I ask the Internet about a karate training facility in Osaka. There should be a nice hiking trail between Kyoto and Nara. Fate has me again Hajo zusammengeführt, und sollte ich meinen Flug nicht umbuchen kann, würde ich ihn in der Jugendherberge in Nara treffen, um wieder vereint von Nara nach Kyoto zu wandern. Leider gibt es im Netz keine Einzelheiten, vielleicht ist es ein alter Pilgerweg, vielleicht auch nur ein einfacher Wanderweg. Wenn wir Pech haben, ist es nur ein Gerücht und selbst wenn, dann können wir nicht auf so detailliertes Kartenmaterial wie in Shikoku zurückgreifen. Außerdem ist Shikoku die Insel der Pilger. Hier sind meist nur preiswerte Unterkünfte und Restaurants eingetragen. Doch auf dem „Festland“ gibt es wieder Business-Tarife für die Hotels und Eintritt für jeden Tempel, den man besuchen will. Wir sind dann wieder im „Touristenland“ Pilgrims and our country, "Shikoku" will be missed.
After breakfast we pack up our things. I shoot a few photos of the hostel. There is an old Japanese house that you have converted into a youth hostel. I had a cozy, albeit characterized by lack of sleep, time up here under the roof - juhe! As the accommodation has cost up here in the "closet" is the same as a place in the sleeping room downstairs in the house, I preferred the private alternative. I had to suffer but under the toilet-goers by night. The room next to mine is also such a "little room". I could throw a cursory glance at the statement. If one has squeezed through the small door, but the room was larger than expected. But I commend my bed, although I'm always in danger of running to push me on the roof beams of the head - but for what you have a flashlight. The lounge was nothing to be desired.
I leave the house together with Hajo. The bus to the train station costs 280 yen. Since the curved one piece just before the village can not climb on foot, there is no sidewalk and no way to avoid the tourist buses in the curves, we are forced to pay our final farewell to the bus. "Sayonara Kobo Daishi," and "Bye" Kurtsan! " We had to Koyasan and Shikoku on a beautiful, though not unproblematic, time. For the train to Kansai Airport, I shell out another 1980 yen, but for now it comes with the cable car back to the station on the JR (Japanese Railways). When I buy my ticket, I get as change a 2,000-yen note. One I've never seen here in Japan, but I'll keep him up as a souvenir. We take the train back towards Osaka. At the station, "Hashimoto" Hajo leave me to go on a train to Nara. If I change the flight can not and does not know what to do, I can see Hajo in the next few days in Nara. Then he will travel to Kyoto, the most famous around here to visit temples in Japan. I have given him another one of my guides, so that he wins an idea of what to expect. visit all temples in Kyoto to do is almost impossible in the short term. So he must make a preliminary selection. I myself was a few years ago for a week in Kyoto and was lucky at the annual end of the feast of All Souls (O-Bon) in Japan, the "no Gozan Okuribi" witness in Kyoto. In this ritual be lit on several mountains in the north of the city large fire, seen from a distance, the Japanese character for "Buddha's great lesson" will result. Impressive, but after the ignition of the pure traffic chaos in the city, since all the viewers want to go home again soon. So after Hajo the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji), the Silver Temple (Gingaku-ji), the subsequent philosophers path is explored, it is probably the Kiyomizu-dera (temple of the good water ") with its three sources, the twin temple Nishi and visit Higashi Honganji and Toji Temple ("Eastern Temple" or Kyō Goku-ji, "The country sheltered temple of the king of the doctrine") come back to Kobo Daishi, who here had his first place of work. The pagoda of Toji way, is the symbol of Kyoto, although the ultra-modern train station you could now make the rank in dispute. Yes - Kyoto is not a small town with a few temples, but a city where one finds only rarely still quiet corners. But for the ambitious Japanese tourists is a must, as is the temple or shrine complex of Nikko, the Hajo visit also wants before her to Tokyo and Narita Airport returns to Hamburg. Also I will eventually find their way to Kyoto. After I moved away from the Ise-Kumano Kodo to the three major shrines of Kumano, I will lead my way to Osaka and Nara again in the temple town. While I visited the Kiyomizudera temple for the second time in my life, I want the first visit of the Daigo-ji remain in permanent memory. The name of Daigo-ji came to me From the outset so well known, until I remembered that last year (2008; http://www.kah-bonn.de/index.htm?ausstellungen/daigoji/index.htm) has given an exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Bonn . It was entitled "Temple Treasures of a Sacred Mountain Daigo-ji - the Secret Buddhism in Japan". And it is this temple I was under the Saikoku pilgrimage tour (33 temples of the Western Canon in Japan) visit. When I was, however, wanted in the main temple with perplexed faces and a "arimasen" (there is not!) To understand that there is not the temple, I have doubted my sanity. But when a monk comes storming after me, who had been asked to telephone for help, could explain to me that the Main Hall (Hondo) is the Daigo-ji's burned down in the mountains a year ago. This news has made me almost speechless then. How could with all the precautions against fire as a disaster happen? Centuries-old cultural heritage were burnt - an immeasurable loss for Kyoto, for the monks in Japan. I then looked at the scale of the disaster and I am tormented in this high in the pouring rain the whole mountain. I even had to pay admission for the area of the Kami-Daigo, although one would like to take this opportunity to educate. But nothing - except a few stone foundations on which The wooden columns stood was nothing left of the hall. I would have run almost over, if I had not the stone staircase made aware that all we ever stood a building has. So instead of me to have an entry in my book on the Pilgrims give Daigo-ji, the temple was now in the valley, the Shimo-Daigo, who is responsible for this task. Later, when I search the Internet for information, the fire that had destroyed the Kannon hall completely no mention. Only the observation that access to the Kami-Daigo area is closed for the purpose of reconstruction after an accident ("Entry to Kami-Daigo area is prohibited because of disaster restoration construction" appeared on the homepage ( http://www.daigoji.or.jp/index_e.html )
I ride the train until Chaya and then take a train to Kansai Airport. But I am disappointed because no flight is taking place today, the switch is not busy. Of the information I get a phone number where logs are not. On the Internet terminal at the tourist office where you can surf for 100 yen, 10 minutes, I find on the homepage of the respective airline flight information (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Sun 11:00 and 18:30 each clock). Did not fly back today, mother and daughter to Berlin? I ask again at the information and I am told that the next flight is at 11:00 tomorrow Clock is set. Today, as I can adjust that, nothing more, I decide to visit the hostel in Hagoromo. I would have loved in Osaka in Kiku, a business hotel that I've known from a previous trip to Japan descend, but the hostel is simply closer. In the youth hostel ( http://www.osaka-yha.com/shin-osaka/shin-osaka-e/g-osaka-kokusai.html ) in Hajo already spent his first night in Japan, am I housed in a dorm or 8-bed rooms. I share the room today after two French women who are maybe a bit older than me. But first I use the Ofuro (shared bathroom) for relaxing. This can also be embarrassing, Although if all the rules that are explained thoroughly on a poster, to heart, but as a class of young girls, like a flock of geese can think of. Of course, one is a foreigner differently than locals eyed. When someone vortraut spirited and with an English "Hello", tried to engage one in conversation, cackles rid of the rest of the girls flock, as if you were a fox and had it in for them. Of course, the brave then returns quickly back into the bosom of the family of geese and that the owner is a lonely furrow and can only grin friendly. When I come back from the bathroom, I wonder whether it is "Paxnaturon ( http://www.paxnaturon.com/ ) is to buy a youth exclusive hair care product probably in Germany. It smells wonderful and the foam dispenser, skin is not so much of it in their hair. But when I enter the room, the two French women sitting in front of a mini-altar and mutter a prayer. Still I sit on my bed and asked them after they have finished, if they have just recited a sutra. They tell me that they belong to the Japanese Nishiren school of Buddhism and have come here for a conference in Japan. The buffet dinner, there's a way, I believe my ears when I appeal to a young Japanese with an accent-free German. In a conversation I know that he is from Wuppertal, his mother is Japanese, and here he would do his community service. I go to bed this morning because last night I have not beat properly. Fortunately, my two roommates have the same idea.
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