DAY 17, 18, 19, 20
Kobe to Himeji
Ethnopunk journey (part3)
So after we left Kobe, we started walking towards the famous Suma beach, continued through Akashi bridge and arrived at Okura beach. It was early morning, getting bright already when we completely exhausted fell asleep right in front of the Tatsunoyu onsen.
Tatsunoyu
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ux9ZxDvvWUNtCPeB8
We where kindly woken up by the onsen stuff at 8:30 am. The onsen opened at 9am so we went in, took a bath and spent the whole day there, sleeping, resting, watching sumo and taking more bath. Then we left and continued walking through the night again. In the morning we found Ae shrine in Harima.
Ae Shrine
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LDnaDPhyNF5M5CgJ6
and spent the whole day hiding from rain there. The rain stoped around midnight so we continued walking another night, already a third night in a raw. In the morning we found another shrine, Kamo shrine, where we took a shelter for the day.
Kamo Shrine
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FQzHkKMxi3UgZ71j6
At around early afternoon we left the shrine, it was still raining, but we had to go because had an appointment at Fukujo temple where we were awaited by the temple family.
Fukujo Temple
https://maps.app.goo.gl/x98zKhouRjU8wNUv7
We came, after three nights of walking, dirty, smelly, tired and quite hungry. The family took such great care of us, we could take a nice bath, clean our cloths, we were served with delicious dinner, later we performed our music act and had a sake party till late.
Thank you so much.
The next morning we woke up early, had a lovely breakfast and continued the walk. It was only one hour walk to Himeji station, where we left our lagguage and with a local guide we went the the Himeji castle and got full 6 hours long excursion around the city, castle and near by garden. Thank you very much to Mr. Guide, who told us so many amazing facts and interesting points in Japanese history about samurai, the way how the castle was built and so much more.
THANK YOU
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DAY 14, 15, 16
Hitchhiking and event in FATRA cafe
Ethnopunk journey (part3)
So after 20 mins of Hitchhiking we got lucky and a car full of friendly people stoped and took us to Nara. We had a fun time chatting and kerning about their community, Tenrikyo.
https://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/
After a few hours of drive we arrived at Tenri town and got a very interesting guide through their amazing church headquarters.
The athmosohere of the place was very friendly, radiating positive and peaceful energy.
Thank you very much.
We got even more lucky, because our hitching angles bought us a dinner and tickets to Kobe, so late in the evening we were back in Kobe again.
Yeah!!! Mission accomplished!!! Hitchhiking in Japan!!!
The next day we had another event in Fatra cafe, shamisen and shishimai and celebrated our last evening in Kobe.
In the morning we packed up and started walking again, on the way we met people from local TV, Channel 3, Sun TV and had funny encounter with their crew.
Thank you Kobe!!!
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DAY 14
Kawazoe shrine and hitchhike back to Kobe
Ethnopunk journey (part3)
This morning we went to Kawazoe shrine 川添神社 川添神社(五身懸宮) to get blessings for our Shishimai. Our good friend Shinki Tsubota performed a special shinto ritual to take away bad energy and bring us luck. Thank you
After that we packed up our stuff and cleaned the house and made a hitchhiking sign that will hopefully get us back to Kobe so we can continue our walking journey.
👍👍👍
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