I πŸ’œ Wasting Ink β†’ Diaries β†’ These Walking Dreams β†’ Day 100 (July 21, 2017)

Towada, Aomori β†’ Noheji, Aomori

Map of Aomori prefecture with author’s route from Towada to Noheji highlighted. πŸ—Ί Open map in GaiaGPS β†’

Beyond a river and green rice fields, the Hakkōda Mountains rise in the distance.

Some sort of discarded appliance with two faded and crumpled pictures of old-fashioned celebrities stuck to it.

Two large bare-chested human figures made of straw, a man and a woman, stand by a tree.

A manhole cover shows two very beautiful horses.

πŸ“ Towada, Aomori

The window of a house features a line drawing of a person fishing with a net from a small boat.

Three 10 kg sacks of rice from neighboring Tsugaru in a shop.

A large, old-fashioned but new house at the end of a driveway. πŸ“ Shichinohe, Aomori

A light blue superexpress train, the Hokkaido Shinkansen, as seen from behind the fence of an overpass. πŸ“ Shichinohe, Aomori

For once the road crossed the Tōhoku Shinkansen on an overpass, and I waited. The train came from the north, from under the sea, and like all Shinkansen it appeared from nowhere and was gone in a second, but it was a long second, and I watched, the train lilac and green, the summer fields of Hokkaido. At night, I reached the bay, and I listened to the murmurs of its ripples, and scallop shells showed the way to the gate of the underworld.

A simple statue of a very large sumo wrestler in a front yard.

A manhole cover shows two very beautiful pheasants. πŸ“ Ishizaka, Aomori

These Walking Dreams is a visual field diary of a 4,300-kilometer walk from one end of Japan to the other, in the spring and summer of 2017.

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