The view looking inland was just as impressive as that one looking out over Matsushima Bay.
We rang the doorbell on the priest's residence and, when he came out, we asked him to stamp our books. Instead of doing it in the book, he gave us a pre-written page which we could insert in the book in place of the blank page. We thanked him and started back toward the small gate to the grounds. We found a nice statue of Kannon.
A little further on we found two more statues but as usual we had no idea who they represented.
From there we walked back down the road and out of the hills. Along the way there was one particularly nice view looking down a valley. The photograph does not show how steep the slope was or how deep the valley was.
Back out on the main road, we returned the way that we came. Since we were walking in the opposite direction we saw things that we had not noticed the first time. This cave was dug into solid rock and probably had been a place for meditation, but it was not a storage cave.
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