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Wonderful traditional wine bridge!

The cost of crossing the bridge is 550 yen.

Iwaya-ji is temple No. 45 on the Shikoku Pilgrimage, or Henro. If there’s one temple on the pilgrimage you really should visit in Ehime Prefecture, Iwaya-ji is it. The temple is located on Kuma Highland in a gorge formed of conglomerate rock. It inspires awe, from the trek up the hillside, to its location embedded in a pock-marked cliff, and the beauty of its structures. At an altitude of 585 m, this temple is one of the nansho (difficult to reach places) of Ehime and mountain recluses and wandering holy men once performed their religious disciplines among the cliffs here.

Daihō-ji, the Temple of Great Treasure, is temple No. 44 on the Shikoku Pilgrimage. It stands in a forest of ancient cypress trees in the area known as Kuma Highland in central Ehime.

Ryūsui-an is a Buddhist temple 6.6 km from Fujii-dera. When Kūkai rested here, he wanted water. So he dug a well with a willow branch. The spring is called ‘willow water’ even today. Legend has it that Kūkai carved an image of himself and placed it here. The lodging here closed in 2001. There are primitive toilets here.

Legend has it that when Kūkai was resting here, he healed the injured leg of a passing man. The man built this temple to honour Kūkai.

Jōren-an is a Buddhist temple 8.8 km from Fujii-dera at an altitude of 745 m, the highest point on the Shōsan-ji Road. A huge cedar, the ‘Ippon Sugi’ grows here and there’s a large bronze statue of Kūkai. Legend has it that Kūkai had a dream of Amida Nyorai while sleeping beneath the tree and carved a statue of the deity.

Henro Korogashi are particularly steep sections of the Shikoku pilgrimage trail. The name roughly translates as 'pilgrim killer'. This is the first such section between temples 11 and 12.

Shōsan-ji is temple No. 12 on the Shikoku pilgrimage. Located at 800 m up a mountain, it’s the second highest temple on the pilgrimage, and it’s known as a nansho, or ‘difficult place’, with a lot of up and down along the way. On a clear day, you can see all the way to Awaji Island. However, the temple is frequently wreathed in cloud, making it very atmospheric. The pilgrimage trail from Temple 11, Fujii-dera to Shōsan-ji is difficult but rewarding.

Fujiidera means 'the wisteria temple'. The ancient wisteria at the temple blooms from late April to early May. There's a magnificent dragon painted on the ceiling of the main hall. Behind the main hall is mini pilgrimage route and the trail to Temple 12, Shosan-ji branches off from here.

Suspension bridge woven from grapevines

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For a few yen you can walk over bridges out of vine - no worries, today they also use steel cables. The bridge spans high over the Iyagawa-river. There are two other bridges a bit higher up the river. Totally worth to see! The other two are maybe a bit less touristic because you have to drive or ride there a while.

There are few buses in both directions, so you should be informed before departure exactly about the departure times and on the summit of Mt. Tsurugi should not take too long break. At the weekend the connections are a bit better.

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On weekends you can take public buses to Mount Tsurugi. After a short cable car ride and a 30-minute walk to the summit you can hike from Mt. Tsurugi to the Lianen bridge Kazurabashi in a few hours, from where the bus goes back in the opposite direction.

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