Tuesday, October 28, 2025

2025.10.27

It was fine, but partially rained.

I got up early and left the guest house around 7AM and walked to Godaido.

Next I went to Ojima where I could not visit last time. There were so many stone monuments.

After that my friends and I took the sight seeing boat at 9AM. Original price was yen1500 but they had a campaign for yen 1000 and I booked. There was a special discount by Website order and it was yen 900.
The second floor was the Green seat and cost yen 600.

Matsushima is known as one of the three most beautiful sites in Japan and the scenery from the boat was very nice. It lasted for 50 minutes.

After that I went back to the guest house to pick up the carry case and headed for the station to go to Iwanuma to visit two shrines.

Today is the day of Tsuchinotomi which happens every 60 days and it is related to Benten goddess. The first shrine is Kanahebisui jinja which enshrines Benten Goddess and there were so many people waiting for the special charm and red stamps.

We went to Takekoma shrine next. It is one of the three biggest Inari jinja. It's been a while since I went there last.

After that I came back to Sendai and took a long distance bus to Shinjuku at 15:50.

We arrived at Shinjuku around 21:30 after stopping at two service areas, and went shopping.

I came home at midnight.

It was a nice trip.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

2025.10.26

It was a rainy day.

The morning ceremony started around 6:10AM which was earlier than usual and lasted for an hour.

After that we had breakfast and enjoyed talking for an hour or so.

We checked out at 10AM and visited the shrines in the precinct for an hour. 

From 11AM special performance of sword dance was dedicated.

From 12 PM Great Goma Prayer Ceremony and Fire Festival began. It was very special.

We took the last ferry at 14:45 to Onagawa and took trains to Matsushima kaigan.

We had Beef tongue dinner.

It was a nice day.

Saturday, October 25, 2025

2025.10.25

It was cloudy, fine, and rain.

I arrived at Sendai around 5:10AM.

I went to Shiogama to visit three shines and headed for Onagawa to meet friends and we took a ferry to go to Kinkasan.
This is the fourth year to come here.
Five of us climbed up to the top of mountain of 444.9m.

We took a bath and had dinner. We are surprised to see the performance.

After dinner we enjoyed talking and eating and drinking.