#kanmangafuchi

I did LOVE the Ginkgo I found here. Sadly it had already dropped all of it leaves, but the golden carpet it had created was quite impressive!

I’ve got a few things to see today in the Nikko area, partially because I’m being a bit stubborn and want to feel like I’ve seen enough to justify the travel time; especially when I had so much I wanted to see in Kyoto. (I should have just called it a loss & gone back to Tokyo or maybe checked out one of the day trips from Nikko.)

With frost still on the ground, I set off on a hike to Kanmangafuchi, a so-called “abyss” that’s actually just an especially fast section of the main Daiya River. It’s not great for abyss like views (and easily confused with another abyss near the same area that also starts with K), but there are a number of red-capped jizo statues along the start of the trail.

Supposedly you cannot count the same number of statues twice while going up/down the path.

I wonder how much of this is due to some of the statues being more obviously statues than others- some are more like rock piles. 

You could save yourself time by just walking the section with the statues, as the rest of the hike is very underwhelming.

nikko - japan. 

El Abismo de Kanmangafuchi, Nikko, en la prefectura de Tochigi. Garganta por la que transcurre el río Daiya. Por el sendero puedes pasear bajo la mirada de numerosas estatuas Jizo, también conocidas como Bake-Jizo (Jizo Fantasma), por la creencia de que al contarlas, su número nunca es el mismo.

Japan Tour - Agosto del 2010 -- Kanmangafuchi Abyss, Nikko, in Tochigi Prefecture. Daiya River runs through this gorge. Walking through the forest path you will find a Jizo statues, also called Bake-Jizo (Ghost Jizo), because when these statues are counted, their number seems to change.