How about we resume our Shikoku Pilgrimage? I left you at Konsen-ji and it was a little while ago, right? So today, I’m bringing you to the fourth temple of the Shikoku Henro, that is Dainichi-ji (大日寺 – The Temple of the Big Sun – or is it the […]
Tokushima
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Today, we’re going to Tokushima Prefecture, more precisely in the city of Itano (city by name only, a town really) to visit Konsen-ji, Shikoku Pilgrimage’s third temple. It’s located just three kilometers from Gokuraku-ji, its predecessor, and to go from one to the other is a piece of cake, the […]
Barely more than a kilometer after leaving Ryozen-ji, pilgrims on the Shikoku Pilgrimage will encounter their first stop, Gokuraku-ji. There’s some excitation arriving there. This time, it’s for real, the pilgrimage is underway, it’s too late to change one’s mind. This is the second temple, one has now become a […]
Today, we’re leaving the Setouchi area a little bit. We’re even leaving Kagawa Prefecture to head to its neighbor in the South East of Shikoku, namely Tokushima Prefecture. More precisely, we’re going to the city of Naruto where our destination of the day is. I’m talking about Ryozen-ji, Shikoku Pilgrimage’s […]
Are you preparing your pilgrimage in Japan? Of course I’m talking about the Shikoku Pilgrimage, also known as the Shikoku Henro, Shikoku Junrei and a few others. Sure, there are more pilgrimages all over the country, but this is the one foreigners are usually aware of. Also, it happens to be […]
Wakimachi is an amazing neighborhood of the town of Mima in the Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku. The neighborhood is full of beautiful houses and buildings from the Edo Period. However, as you can see on the picture, they’re not all in a great shape. That doesn’t make […]
A random street of Wakimachi in Mima, Tokushima. For more info about this neighborhood, check out the other posts I wrote about it.
A few days ago, I told you about my visit of Wakimachi two years ago. In case you forgot, Wakimachi is this amazing neighborhood of the town of Mima, in the Tokushima Prefecture that has stayed pretty much unchanged since the Edo period. I don’t know about you, but […]
After visiting Ryōzenji, we drove west for about an hour to the town of Mima in the central part of the Tokushima Prefecture in order to visit the Wakimachi, a historical neighborhood where all house are quite old, most of them dating from the Edo Period. It somewhat reminded me […]
After watching the Naruto Whirlpools, we drove to the town of Naruto to visit Ryōzen-ji (霊山寺), the first of the 88 Shikoku Pilgrimage temples. You may already know this, but when you decide to walk (or bike or drive) the Shikoku Pilgrimage, you just don’t start anywhere. Well, you […]