I was worried before leaving Tokyo,
I did not want it to rain only today and tomorrow.
Only this day, I want to be sunny even for just one day,
I thought.
Actually, besides worrying about rain, there is also concern about coldness.
In the last few days my night was a fight against the cold.
I do not see any rain forecast today, but I do not know the coldness of the night.
Together with the people who stayed at the same accommodation, I ate breakfast while having a nice talk.
I organized my luggage, I thanked the people of the inn and started departing.
This is a place where it is said that Kobo-Daishi(弘法大師) slept outdoors one night.
This is the only place where pilgrims were permitted to sleep outdoors publicly on the Shikoku pilgrimage road.
It is said that Kobo-Daishi(弘法大師) slept one night under this bridge.
At the planning stage, I thought about sleeping a tent here, but I could not do it.
Olden days,It seems that the sound of a walking stick crossing the bridge was noisy and Kobo-Daishi could not sleep.
Unlike in the past, now,in this place you hear the tire sound of a car passing over the bridge.
Another difference is that we can not handle fire here.
Many cars are running.
I also thought about placing a tent here at the planning stage but eventually I could not sleep in the tent here.
why could it not be done?
It is a toilet and water facility.
However, since I only have to worry about lunch, I will enter a convenience store.
I'd rather not buy it at a convenience store, but I would like to eat at the cafeteria, but I am concerned that there is not a suitable restaurant at the way-station(道の駅) on the way.
If I will not find a suitable restaurant, I only have to eat the food of convenience stores I bought.
I am planning to have dinner at the Kokumin-Shukusha accommodation.
There is a person bicycle pilgrimage.
She has a cane.
She will use that cane when walking down the bicycle.
However, the walking people are going up almost linearly
After all, I had not stop at Michinoeki Road Station.
I took a small break and ate convenience-box lunch here.
Bikes should be left here,
The stairs will start soon.
I will walk about 30 minutes.
Because it is a halfway distance, I feel it for long.
Besides, there are places to slide around here.
There was a woman whose bicycle pilgrimage had a big cane in front of the tunnel.
I understood.
She will use it here.
No.45
Iwaya-ji(岩屋寺)
The stamp place was crowded.Many books of organizations were stacked up.
The monk signed my notebook ahead with saying "I will do you ahead" with hand out to me.
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After I ran the prefectural road No.12 for
only 2 km. I had dinner at the national accommodation "Firuiwaya-so" |
I set up a tent at a place where wind would not come.