Hehe, you might wonder what the title is all about… after staying now so much time in the big cities I decided to flee from the heat (here we heave tempretures north of 30 degrees Celsius everyday) and looked for a escape into cooler areas… searching for such a place I found in my precious lonely planet guide a mountain village which should host one of the most spectacular temples… what better than this… Kotohira was sold to me… to my surprise the train ride was fast but we never seemed to climb upwards… 2 hours and something from Matsuyama I got there, still at what I would consider sea level… even from my hotel room I was able to see the sea – it was on the 6^th floor and it appeared that any Tsunami would have wiped the village out… anyway, that is when you make your trip according to the book rather than asking someone… however, this small village was just superb… it hosted the oldest Kabuki as well as a temple complex where you had to climb up some odd 1369 steps… and this at some 35 degrees… anyway, besides that is was not in the mountain, it was just such a lovely place with his small village charm making up for the sea level location…