Sakudaira & Otomi Falls
From Yudanaka, I headed next to Sakudaira for some aikido with Ariga sensei and his students at Saku dojo. I stayed at the dojo. On the second (and last) day of my stay, I went with Ariga sensei and one of his students to the evening class he takes at Chino - which I hadn't realised was a couple of mountain passes away from Sakudaira. On the way, we stopped at the Otomi waterfall - a truly breath-taking series of waterfalls. (Most of this set is about the waterfalls in this area). From Sakudaira, I headed back to Osaka via Tokyo on the shinkens, where I had one final class on the Wednesday night at Shosenji dojo before returning to Australia on the Thursday.
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