Day 28 of my walk along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage began high on the Akiyoshidai Plateau, a karst, treeless landscape dotted with limestone pinnacles.
I needed to reach Hagi today, on the Sea of Japan coast, and being mid-winter the days were short so I headed off before sunrise.
The first part of the walk was across the plateau, mostly on some of the many footpaths that criss-cross the plateau.
It is great to have such a long stretch of walking off-road.
The different junctions on the paths are sometimes confusing and not well signed, but it is not so difficult to match the map to the surroundings....
I did not pass another walker in the several hours it took to reach the edge of the plateau and descend into the more normal landscape....
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