Climbing Mt. Daimonji
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During Golden Week, I climbed Mt. Daimonji.
You take the road north of Ginkaku-ji and it’s an easy climbing route that takes about half an hour one way. (But because I haven’t been getting much exercise recently, my muscles started to ache right away…)
I started climbing at six in the morning and joined the old men doing the radio exercises at the top.
It was kind of surrealistic and also felt very good to do the exercises while watching a panoramic view of Kyoto in the morning sun.
The mountain is closed every year on August 16 on the day of Gozan-no-Okuribi (last day of Buddhist Obon festival on which five great bonfires in the shape of Chinese characters and other motifs are lit on the hillsides of mountains) but otherwise it’s open throughout the year.
Anyone interested, please give it a go.
Rumors are that there’s a group in K university that secretly plans to change the bonfire character from 大(great) to 犬(dog)…