After exploring Taisho Cave I head off for the second leg of my days walk towards my destination, the historic castle town of Hagi on the Sea of Japan coast.
As with all my walks, both urban and rural, there are plenty of shrines to stop in at and plenty of roadside statues....
Not far from the cave, I pass by the entrance to Akiyoshidai Safari Land. Never been in, so I don't know for sure, but from my experience of other sites and businesses in Japan involving animals, I suspect I would find it depressing.
It is only a few days until the New Year, but winter has not arrived yet. Normally around Christmas we get the first snow and freezing temperatures, but in 2014 not yet.
There are some nice wide roads with wide sidewalks, but very little traffic.....
Who doesn't love a bit of wabi sabi rust?
It was a very pleasant, rural walk, mostly downhill, and with nothing particularly noteworthy..
Plenty of abandoned properties, roadside altars, old thatched farmhouses, some covered in tin, some not...
It had been three days since the last pilgrimage temple and city....
The previous post in this series on day 28 of my walk along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage was on the
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