Still walking - my goal is a hill top shrine

 These fields will soon be planted with rice. After they are plowed, they will be flooded and then the rice sprouts that are currently growing in greenhouses will be planted. The harvest will be late in the summer.

 The last time I came by here, a couple of years ago, this was an empty field. Because of all the people whose homes were destroyed by the tsunami and quakes moving to Sendai, there is a real housing boom.