what do you see?

On Saturday we "climbed" Maruyama - it's only a small mountain, well perhaps it should officially be called a hill if you use the 1000-foot rule...but anyway, we climbed it.

This is another place with a reconstruction in miniature of the 88-temple pilgrimage on Shikoku. Each of the 88 temples is represented by a small group of jizo statues, adorned with the usual red caps and bibs. This made it feel a little more like the older parts of Japan we used to explore.

There was still quite a bit of snow on the path in places, which made things interesting too.







From the top there's a very good view of almost the whole of Sapporo city: