Rain with clearing.
Longest walk today but cut short.
Picture postcard walk in the Kiso mountains. Trees amazing colors, Vermont plus. Then a sudden rainstorm making the path too dangerous to climb and descent.
Kami of a powerful woman samuri who was the liver of adaimo who lost a battle for Kyoto.
Found a house for shelter and they provided coffee for the whole group, let us eat or picnic lunches,and then used their two minivans to drive us ask to a train station. Hospitality at its finest.
Interesting visit to a checkpoint along the nakasendo. Run by the shogun.
Hybrid ryokan,tatatmi mats but ensuite bath as well as communal bath.
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