Shōfutatsu Bae

The day starts with a sunrise over the bay that I share with four young Japanese with big cameras.

I walk as far as I feel like along the coast and off the beaten path through a fishing port and over dirt paths and hills.

I find a super market and then a nice little cafe before I climb aboard a bus and it scurries through very narrow streets in the backwaters of the main road. Perfect, I get to see a lot.

I need to change buses and get to talk with a 73 years old Japanese man who knows ten English words. We do get some good laughs from the translator on my phone which is hilariously inaccurate. He is 6 hours from home by car traveling by himself.

I get off the bus early and walk the rest on this beautiful day along and on top of the Tsunami wall overlooking the Pacific. I leave my pack at the hotel and head out towards temple 24. It is very quiet in what I thought was a busy tourist area. I stay on top by the lighthouse to catch the sunset. Then I take another Onsen and retire.Read more