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Bedding Down With The Monks
As we have learned very quickly, traveling through Japan can be a real test of your logistics skills. Getting to Mt Koya involved a train not covered by our Japan Rail Pass, a cable car not covered by anybodies pass, and a public bus just to add flavour. Mt. Koya, which is not a single mountain but rather a group of mountains, is primarily known as the world headquarters of the Koyasan Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism- it is located in an 800 ...
Koya-san day 6; Living in a Buddhist world.
8 uur, mijn wekker gaat met veel lawaai af. Gisteren iets te laat blijven prullen met foto's te selecteren voor de blog dus dat wordt slapen op de trein dan maar. Na een laatste ontbijt check ik me uit bij het hotel en voor ik het goed en wel besef zit ik op de trein richting Osaka. Van hieruit is het nog even een overstap maken richting Shin Imiyami. Onderweg wordt het uitzicht steeds meer typisch voor het Japanse binnenland; Bergen en groen domineren het zicht.
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Day 413: cemetary and temples
... their secret? Holding it back, makes it worse, I just found out. I also was wrong about the tiny people. Many of them are actually quite tall. Northern European size tall! Another mystery to be solved: Why do only the short ones get to go on incentive tours to Switzerland when there is so many tall ones? And their feet are big too! Even the shorter ones have unproportionally big feet! Or maybe it's just fashion to wear long ...
Temples de Koyasan
... dos dont un qui pèse le double du début.
Enfin arrivée au temple, je me rends dans ma chambre. C'est hallucinant comment c'est relaxant avec une vue sur un jardin et que le bruit de la nature. Ma chambre est un peu comme à Matsumoto avec tatamis et table au centre mais avec des vraies fenêtres japonaises et une porte coulissante. En passant, ils ont le wifi dans le hall d'entrée du temple.
Après avoir pris mon sac de visite, j'ai parcourue une partie de la ville ...
The sacred mountain
... make more farming feasible.
The final stretch of the trip was covered by a cable car, to get us up to the peak where the Koyasan temples were situated. A smallish town, filled with temples, as it was the very purpose of the original settlement. As is very common here, we has booked a Shukubo, or a temple lodging for the stay. We stayed at Henjoson-in which was a significant temple and the monks were very friendly and accommodating to ...
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