Upsetting the established order – that is why we recognize the truly adventurous – we changed a bit our program to see today the eight Jigoku or eight “hell”. Nothing awful, but extraordinary things. Beppu is known for its onsen, here is an onsen of a particular type, where we …
We are past the island of Shikoku to Kyushu, after a trip that took us all the day: walk to the tram, tram, train, walk to the terminal ferry, ferry, taxi to the ryokan. During our trip, we have therefore taken plane, train, ferry, taxis, bus, tram, bike, we also …
We took our pilgrim’s staff to visit the Ishite-ji. We did not do the tour of Shikoku island as our friend Jehan did to reach the temple No. 51 of the pilgrimage, we just walked a little over a kilometer from our ryokan. A huge Buddha 16 meters tall dominates …
The day started strangely by a small mistake: instead of taking the express to Uchiko, we took a little train that traveled along the coast. Absorbed as we were, me in the contemplation of the landscape (Shikoku, is definitely the country of Totoro) Xim in writing postcards, we also missed …
Last night the world celebrated Halloween. Let’s start by saying that I struggle to understand what exactly you celebrate. Darkness? The devil? It’s a way to exorcise our fears? I’m not an anthropologist so there I will not express the social implications or the reasons that lead people to dress …
We take the day for getting back from our sportive emotions. We had not no aches this morning, even if our muscles remained present. We discover smoothly Matsuyama, the Dogo neighborhood, where we have our ryokan, and the Castle.
There will be a before Shimanami kaido, there will be an after. First, and to silence those who have made a few remarks lacking kindness, we did it: some 90 km on bike, 70 on the Shimanami kaido itself. The first part we wanted just let you know that we …
We made more than 40 kilometers cycling and we are half of the Shimanami Kaido. We left at 9:30 am from Onomichi, we arrived at 3:20 pm at our ryokan in Ohmishima (on the Island of the same name). Is it a difficult course? It is not difficult. But to …
Great start of the south! We left our huge suitcase in the care of the delivery company Yamato, it will join us in a few days in Mastuyama. So we traveled light for four and a half hours of train to get to Onomichi. On the train, we wrote postcards …
With a small train we went down the mountain, across rivers, rice fields, vegetable gardens, fields and persimmon have appeared from time to time in the landscape, still filled with fruit. We had already seen some, left to dry, in Takayama, and persimmon are now everywhere. When we take our …
