Summer vacation 14 - Tono

Tono is a small town in the highlands of Iwate, that has quite some nice sightseeing spots. I stopped by an open air museum, that has some farmhouses grouped as a little village with some forests around and a small river running through. A lot of nature. So most pictures are nature here.

Second stop was a small temple, where the stairs to it are the main attraction. 

And last a small area in a forest close by, where the 500 disciplines of Buddhism are engraved in stones. Some of them a bit hard to see below the moss.