Shikoku 88 temples pilgrimage
Replies: 2 - Last Post: Sep 9, 2012 2:07 PM Last Post By: HeinzWolfgang
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Shikoku 88 temples pilgrimage
Konichi wa!After 7 days of pilgrimage on the St. Jakobs -Route from Koblenz (Germany) to Metz (France) I found the August-Edition of "Geo", the equivalent in Europe to "national geographic", in Thionville and read therein "Le tour de l`ame en 88 temples: Shikoku, Japan.
About 15oo km of walking, about 3 months time is required for the tour in Shinkoku.
Has anyone done the temple-route by walking (not by travel-organisations as by Minibus etc.) and can give some experience about walking distances, accomodation, costs?
Thanks to all experienced pilgrims on this route thinking of spending a little bit of their lifetime to answer my request:
"Eine gute Tat stirbt nie" ( = a good deed never dies).
Kind regards- heinzwolfgang
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http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/shikoku/pilgrimagebooksGuidebooks.html#88RouteGuideObviously the whole site is about the Henro Pilgrimage..
http://www.88templeswithamachan.com/
If you are arriving in Tokyo and want a warm-up/taster then do the Fudashou trail around Chichibu, just north-west of Tokyo. Its 100km, 34 temples in all and - as with the Henro - at each temple there is someone who will stamp your book and the unique and of course always beatifully paint the unique temple calligary kanji.
Ganbatte, ne!
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Ever seen a real wonder ?Sorry, this is german to english translation "word for word".
Friday I read numerous answers to the topic, I spent several hours to read with utmost interest the diary of one "ohenro-san" named..... named? Something with maybe "weely" or so in his post: I was very much impressed by this description. Please help me to find this topic AGAIN WITH ALL contributions.
Thanks all-
heinzwolfgang
