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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. 09, 2006
Ichinoseki -- Hiraizumi -- Ichinoseki -- Iwadeyama -- Furukawa (95.93 km)
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Ichinoseki

Start!!                    
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Nishoan ruins (7:43 AM)
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Road to Hiraizumi
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Hiraizumi

Unohana Shimizu (8:15 AM)
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Chusonji Temple (8:24 AM)

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Konjikido
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Hiraizumi
from "Narrow Road to the Interior"
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Haiku(verse) at Chusonji
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Motsuji Temple (12:01 PM)



This is my third time to come here in this tour.
This time, at last, I get in!!
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This temple has a Youth Hostel inside.
I stayed here 1988. It is very recommended,
because you can go around in the temple
before the gate opens for ordinal people.
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Basho's verse (haiku) translated in to English.
"The summer grass
'Tis all that left
Of ancient warriors' dream "
monument of Basho
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lunch at soba shop in Ichinoseki (1:22 PM)
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The sign says, "There is the 'Pine of Basho'".
And it must be the head of this road, but I cannot find it. (;0;) (4:31 PM)
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Iwadeyama

Iwadeyama Sta. (7:13 PM)

Here, I decide to go to Furukawa because Iwadayama is a very small town.
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Haiku(verse) on Route 47 to Furukawa
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Furukawa

just before Furukawa,
I meet terrible shower. (;0;)





reach hotel at Furukawa (8:10 PM)
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Today's dinner at Izakaya "Tokiwa" (10:52 PM)
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drink at bar "NAM" (1:35 AM)
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Today's inn: "Plaza Hotel Furukawa" (Business Hotel)
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DATA on Aug. 09, 2006
Weather

cloudy, sometimes rain
Route
(prefecture)
Ichinoseki (Iwate)
-- (Pref. Road 19) -- Hiraizumi (Iwate)
-- (Pref. Road 19) -- Ichinoseki (Iwate)
-- (Pref. Road 17) -- Iwadeyama (Miyagi)
-- (Route 47, 108) -- Furukawa (MIyagi)
detail track (by Google Maps)(Click!)
GPX file: 20060809.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
95.93 km
Time
5 hours 23 minutes 42 seconds
Average speed
17.6 km/h
Max. speed
43.6 km/h
Difference of altitude
100 m
Profile Map(Click!)
Note
All roads are flat.
Accommodation
[charge]
Plaza Hotel Furukawa (Business Hotel)
[5,900 yen]
Diary
I left hotel at 7:30 AM and reached Chusonji at 8:00. Left Chusonji at 11:30. Did I stay too long at Chusonji? Next I went to Motsuji and at last, around 13:00, when I thought "Let's leave Hiraizumi!", I began to rain. It was the beginning  to  fight against misty rain. Run.......Iwagasaki..., I reached Iwadeyama around 19:00. "If I head for Naruko Onsen (Spa), I might not eat dinner at ryokan. But here, Iwadeyama, is not a business hotel....." I decided to head for Furukawa. I met a shower again in the way to Furukawa. I got in the hotel like a man just after swiming..
What day is it today?
When I was in Chusonji,  the mouring bell for the nuclear weapon against Nagasaki (in the World War II) started to ring very degnifiedly.
The verse (haiku) in Chusonji is not completed yet.

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