Ancient Ruins ... or lack there of ...

I set off this morning to find the Ancient Ruins of Iwagasaki, but to my dissapointment, I never found them. Stupid tourist map ...

On the way there, I found another Kuhonbutsu statue. For some reason they are really hard to find (o_o)!

Anyway, back to my trip to the ruins ... I traveled along this long bridge going towards Sanpoku. I turned off where the map marked, but going all the way down, I couldn't find it! I found Taki Jinja, but no ruins! I would have gone to Taki, but much like with the Buddhist Temples, I don't want to make a fool of myself ... so, I am waiting until I have access to the internet to review various rituals.

At one point I thought that the ruins might be up this steep hill, but after lugging my bike all the way up, I was rewarded with a narrow highway to Sanpoku ... the crows were laughing at me. Yeah ... it was sad ... really sad.

I did stop to take some pictures of the sea, though.

So, I rode my bike along the narrow highway, trying to avoid cars until the sidewalk opened up. Oh well, the ruins will have to wait for another day! Or a better map ...

Photo Set of this trip!