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Narrow Road to the Interior - Stage 2 "Sightseeing"
(Total Data, Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Last updated on Sep. 22, 2007

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Aug. 08, 2006
Ichinoseki -- Hiraizumi -- Ichinoseki <==> Oomiya (52.55 km)
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Ichinoseki 1

Good morning! (8:07 AM)
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Genbikei

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Phone call for job. (;o;)
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Dango cake and tea come from other side of the river when you hit the board.(They are not free. f(^_^;)
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This is my second time to come here.

[shot on May 5, 1988]

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Takkoku no Iwaya

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This is Motsuji Temple (11:02 AM)

Phone call for job. (;o;)

I don't get in the temple.

Here I find I cannot stay here and have to go back to Tokyo for the job. (ToT)
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Back to Tokyo

parking lot at Ichinoseki Sta. (11:34 AM)
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And get on a Shinkansen Super Express for Tokyo.


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Tokyo Sendai Ichinoseki
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Haiku(verse) in Super Express "Hayate"
Sora (Webmaster)
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Also in the train, phone calls never stop. (;o;)
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When the train goes around Fukushima, I hear in the phone, "Ok, the work is over. All become fine. You don't have to come to Tokyo." What!? I DON'T have to ...... (-_-)
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"Meow, meow."

When I finish the final call, I am on a deck and I find some mewing in somewhere on the deck.
When I look back, a kitten is mewing in lady's arms.

As he(the kitten) is so cute and also I give a sight of relief because of job is over, I asked her, "How old is he?".

I do a short conversation with her and get a real relief. (I was so irritated because of the call for job and the fact I was going back to Tokyo). The kitten "Obu" did a great job for me. (^o^)

I say good bye to them and get off the train at Oomiya.
I decide to fly back to Ichinoseki.
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Oomiya Sta. (I look a little bit still irritating. f^_^;)
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Let's go back to Ichinoseki!!! (^0^)/
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Ichinoseki

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Ichinoseki 2

I am back to the parking lot!
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Hiraizumi

Hiraizumi Sta. (5:04 PM)
ruins of Yanagi-no-gosho palace (5:17PM)
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Takadachi (5:44 PM)
This is the battle field where the famous samurai Yoshitsune died. Basho respected him. One reason Basho did his trip was to come here. I think this is the highlight of the Narrow Road to the Interior.

It is almost sunset, so there is no people except me. Time goes slowly. I am thinking about Yoshitsune and feel something sad.
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Hiraizumi
from "Narrow Road to the Interior"
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Ichinoseki 3

Today's inn:
"Ichinoseki Green Hotel"
(Business Hotel)
Today's dinner drink at bar "Thistle"

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DATA on Aug. 08, 2006
Weather

fine
Route
(prefecture)
Ichinoseki (Iwate)
-- Genbikei
-- Takkoku no Iwaya
-- (Pref. Road 31) -- Motsuji (Hiraizumi, Iwate)
-- (Route 4, Pref. Road 260) -- Ichinoseki Sta. (Iwate)
==> (Super Express Train) ==> Oomiya (Saitama)
==> (Super Express Train) ==> Ichinoseki (Iwate)
-- (Pref. Road 19) -- Hiraizumi (Iwate)
-- (Route 4) -- Ichinoseki (Iwate)
detail track (by Google Maps)(Click!)
GPX file: (before Oomiya) 20060808_01.gpx
(after Oomiya) 20060808_02.gpx
(I make this GPX file and Google Maps after the trip according to my human memory. Because the data stocker of GPS was broken in the tour. (ToT))
Distance
52.55 km
Time
2 hours 50 minutes 36 seconds
Average speed
18.4 km/h
Max. speed
43.1 km/h
Difference of altitude
unknown
Profile Map(Click!)
Note
All roads are flat.
Accommodation
[charge]
Ichinoseki Green Hotel (Business Hotel)
[6,980 yen]
Diary
I left hotel for Genbikei. Between the phone calls for job, I ran and did sightseeings, but I decided to go back to Tokyo in front of Motsuji at 11:00 AM. I did call and e-mail in the train, and got "OK" around Fukushima. The train did't stop untill Oomiya. I didn't know what should I do and how to treat my heart, and started to talk to the kitten and his keeper, "How old is he?"....... They survived me. I arrived at Ichinoseki Sta. at 4:19PM. And reach Motsuji at 4:51 PM. Motsuji is already closed. I bought a drink at a small shop in front of Hiraizumi Sta. and go up to Takadachi. It is the place of samurais' dream. Nobody was there. Nothing has changed comparing with 20 years ago I came. Time went very slowly.
In the last 20 minutes I had a excellent time.

From tomorrow, will run gentlly.

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