As we passed through town, we crossed a bridge over a little river that was lined with hotels with hot springs. There were signs of new life everywhere, but the cherry blossoms were not quite out yet.
A bamboo fence crowned a slope at the side of the road. I think that there was a hotel on the other side, but we could not see it.
We passed this temple but it was not one of the ones on our pilgrimage so we did not do stop in. In a way this felt like the Henro Pilgrimage again - we had many kilometers to go and had to arrive at the third temple before they shut up shop for the night.
The landscape was a bit unusual. The steep sided hills poked up out of a relatively flat area along the riverside. We were very glad that our goal, Temple #11, was not on the top of this hill. However, as you will see the actual location of the temple was not much better.
This house was obviously abandoned, and in a few more weeks it would be invisible behind all the vegetation. Also I expect that it will only be a few more years before it collapses completely. The windows were broken and there we shingles missing from the roof.
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