walkabout-japan

Day 78
Chokai-san
GPS: N 38°, 42.419'
E 139°, 40.156'
Ort: Sanze
Etmal: 29 km
Total: 1838 km
I'm quite sure it'll be raining today when I'm watching the sky
at breakfast with nut wedges filled with rice, Calorie Mate, Weider Jelly Energy Pack and a coke. It looks like heavy rain. Therefore, I'm hurrying along the coast road admiring the torn lava structure of the rocks where tiny villages are hidden in between. Fishermen are rolling in nutshells between the cliffs picking with view boxes and long stakes for something under water (probably snails - nearly everything in Japan is about food, delicious!). On the way I meet two MTB people from Tokyo who give me bacon and heat plaster for the back (I
must look really bad ...) Later there are another two photographers from Osaka who are crouching on the road trying to take a photo of that gigantic, snow covered mountain in the mist - no chance (they give me nothing; maybe bacon and plaster have been successful).
In a quite shabby "summer resort" the road disappears in
sand dunes with pinewood going to Sakata, my asylum. A
park located over the river, where many old men are playing this "cross-golf-bowling", is my home for tonight. Around the corner there's a Supamaketo with a lot of sushi and Sashimi and meals with not readable labels (anyway, I collect everything!) When the tent is standing, it starts raining. This was just in time! However, as they've had already 117% of
the normal May rain on the coast until 12 May, I really think that's enough for rest of the time. I've become wet often enough! For two days I've already been walking towards this gigantic snow covered mountain. Finally, I've got its name: Chokai-san (2.236 m high): it looks wonderfully but somehow also mysteriously.


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