Day 4 and 5
Thankfully the rain from the day before had stopped and the day was nice and sunny. The host helped me get to the first temple of the day which was 13 Dainichiji back in Tokushima. The day was straight forward, I went from temple 13 to temple 17 in the city which took a couple of hours of walking. I ended up taking the train back into Tokushima because my lodgings were there for the night. I ended up staying at the Toyoko hotel which I guess is a large chain. I had booked two days to give my self some rest and plan out the rest of my trip. I got to head around the city and take some cool shots of the river running through Tokushima.
On my day off I wondered around the city a bit. As I strolled through an outdoor/indoor mall I was walking next to a guy named Nobuhiro, that started talking to me. I am not sure where he was going, but he offered to show me the Awa Odori Museum. Awa Odori is festival dance that is Tokushima is famous for. It is pretty intense and has had a long history in Japan. There is a gift shop on the bottom floor, a performance hall on the second and a museum the third that I checked out. When I return to Tokushima when I have completed the 88 Shrines I plan on checking out the performance.
The Museum and some benches that are under replicas of the hats during the dance.
The rest of the day was spent planning out my trip. After day I had going to temple 12 I had think about how I was going to approach the rest. To walk all of the island is unrealistic for me as my pack is way to heavy and to tell the truth, walking next to the roads (which most do not have a sidewalk) is dangerous and nerve-wracking.