
In the morning, we drove on south to Nagano where we saw the imposing Zenkoji temple, then ascending a steep mountain road with another spiral viaduct and tunnel system to Togakushi where there are a series of Shinto hill shrines in the misty wilderness. We stayed the night in the wooded entrance to a pilgrimage track back to Zenpo and in the morning walked in the misty rain to the uppermost shrine, a mile-long walk uphill to the base of a sheer escarpment where the shrine stood beside a tumbling stream.












In the courtyard there are a series of attached shrines, a pond with turtles and a number of Buddha statues.





























The road climbs steeply into the mountains ascending a spiral to gain extra height.






Coming to the top of the pass we see the mountain above the Togakushi shrines






We stopped at a lower shrine on the road winding up to the mountaintop which had a huge flight of steps leading up through the forest hillside.

















We then drove up the mountain road to where the entrances are to the distant shrines along the cliff face of the mountain.






The next morning we took an early walk for miles through the forest to one of the most distant shrines right at the foot of the mountain cliff face.






















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