Kannonyama

To celebrate our first day off that wasn't overcast and rainy, Sarah and I decided to hike up to Kannonyama a huge 120 foot tall statue of the bodhisattva of compassion, Kannon. It took us a little over an hour to walk accross Takasaki, where we will be living next month and then up into the surrounding hills where the statue was. Check out the pictures below and for more, click on the link to the right.

We had to walk accross the city to get to the hills. That bump on the hill is the statue.

Almost there...

Kannonyama.

To give some scale, here's me at the feet of Kannonyama.