I am Peter my name is tourist

No trip to Japan is complete without seeing some old buildings, so Tuesday I went to a small town named 尾道 (Onomichi) an hour or so from Hiroshima. The original religion in Japan is called Shinto but over time Buddhism was introduced from China and now they have a mixture of both. Onomichi is known for its many Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples and on Wednesday I went on a power-temple-walk. I had bought an all Japanese guidebook which contained a route for all the temples and from 12 o'clock I started on my trip. From east to west I walked down small roads and up wide stairs following the trail of temples and shrines scattered on the mountain side. The town had grown up the mountain and the beautiful buildings were hidden between old aluminium and wooden houses pressed tightly together. The path was marked with signs showing the way to the next temple on the route and the small streets I walked down were some places no wider than half a meter. I visited 20 shrines and temples, took 40 pictures, rode a ropeway and bought some lucky charms to help me on my Japanese test. Onomichi is the birthplace of number of famous writers and like the temple-walk they have a path-of-literature walk so I'm sure my lucky charms will be good for study.


A Japanese temple