Steps, Steps and....More Steps Photo 4

Steps, Steps and....More Steps

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June 30th 2011
An early breakfast saw me up and about at 5.45am and ready to hit the road to Kotohira by 8.00am. Kotohira is home to the much famed Konpirason shrine and apparently if you mention that you have been to it most Japanese people will ask if you got to the top (I didn't try out this theory).The reason for this claim is that there are 1368 steps to reach the top and then about another 500 to reac ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more