Musicisgood's Shikoku cycling journey

I can't find that campsite on the maps can you give me a link with the map showing it maybe that will help me.
#2 section on that page that @Hiroyuki Nagashima linked

約200人が利用ができる大神子海岸の松林にある日陰スペース
・炊飯棟 3棟 (調理台,炉,水道)
・テーブル,ベンチ
・トイレ
大神子病院しあわせの里テニスセンター及びキャンプ場案内図

Shaded space in the pine forest on the Ogamiko beach that can accommodate approximately 200 people.
  • 3 rice cooking buildings (cooking stove, furnace, water supply)
  • Tables, benches
  • Toilets
Information map for Ogamiko Hospital Shiawase-no-sato Tennis Center and Campsites
The title says "Day Camp" though, so I don't think you'll be able to stay there. Might have to find other accommodations

Omiko beach is right next door
 
Omikuji - shrine fortune slip
I'm not very good at reading these, as the spacing threw me off but I think this is how it goes:

春風に池の水もとけはて、喉けき花のかげぞうつれる

春の日に暖かに和らぎはなさき匂う如く今迄の悪い運も開けて栄える御籤です
心正しく行いをすでにし色を慎しみ信神して人に慈しみを施せ、幸をよく添える

運勢・小吉

願望 - 思い通りですしかしやり過ごせば悪し
待人 - 来るものおそし
失物 - 必ず出る物の間
旅行 - さわぐな
商売 - 利益あり売に吉
学問 - 雑念が多すぎる勉学せよ
相場 - 売れ 持てば損
争事 - 勝つ事十分なり
恋愛 - 良い人です信じなさい
転居 - 早くしてよろし
出産 - 安し 母子とも順調
病気 - 石を選べ 治る
縁談 - いろくのさわりあり ひそかにすればよし


The water in the pond has melted in the spring breeze, and thirst-quenching flowers are shrouded in shadow.

It is a lot that opens up the bad luck you have had up to now and makes you prosper as if you could smell the flowers on a warm spring day.
Do the right thing in your heart, be kind and faithful to others, and you will be blessed with good fortune.

Fortune - Small fortune

Desire - You will get what you wish for, but if you do not get what you wish for, you will have bad luck.
Waiting - things are slow in coming
Lost things - always between things that appear/go out
Travel - Don't be boisterous/make a disturbance
Business - Good luck in business, profitable
Study - too many thoughts, study.
Market - Sell; if you hold on, loss.
Disputes - Winning is enough.
Love - Trust in the right person.
Moving - hurry up.
Birth - safe, mother and child will be fine.
Sickness - choose the doctor, they will heal you.
Engagement - Love will be good... if you keep it secret.
 
#2 section on that page that @Hiroyuki Nagashima linked


The title says "Day Camp" though, so I don't think you'll be able to stay there. Might have to find other accommodations

Omiko beach is right next door
  • I'm sorry. It was a Day campground.
    I do not seem to be able to stay.
旅人の宿 道しるべ Tabibito no yado michishirube
ドミトリー宿泊料金 2,625円
宿泊料金の割引 500円割引

ご自身の自転車、またはバイクで
お越し頂いた方
Dormitory accommodation fee: 2,625 yen
Accommodation fee discount: 500 yen discount
Those who came by their own bicycle or motorcycle

List of rider accommodations which information is considerably old, but are it edition for your information for 2,010 years
 
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Yeah no problem I only spent 2 hours going up the mountain and then I was going to go downhill and find out there's no camp ing 2 hours pushing my bike anyway it was a good exercise for me luckily they had a vending machine before I can buy some water anyway so I headed back and now it's Saturday morning at 8:30 in the morning and I'm going on route 55 as far as I can make it today to look for a campground here's a photo of the direction I'm going to so if you know any campgrounds that are free that are not on a mountain top and let me know.

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Starting this morning at 408 km.
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I made it to a Beach campground tonight.
A long day pushing my bike up the mountain did I say a mountain I mean mountains crazy man truly crazy.
You can look on the map it's highway 26.
I survived with some help with the Japanese giving a helping hand.
It's very windy at the ocean right here I hope my tent doesn't break.
I'll post pictures later too tired.
 
I hope you held your breath. Lots of car exhaust in those tunnels.
Yeah I went through three tunnels this morning so far I'm at a rest stop right now actually I'm a family Mart charging my batteries it's like almost 11:00 in the morning and the heat is this is the first time in 10 days that I realized that it is hot
 
July 9th Sunday morning I left Tainohama beach campsite. I had about 3 km of going uphill which meant I was walking and then at the top it was all downhill for 6 km.
And now I'm back on highway 55.
Here are some pictures.


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Beautiful country in the rural side. People are very friendly and helpful here.

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So many abandoned buildings.
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This is what many of the houses look like in this area some are mostly single story and many of them are 60 years old or much older.
So peaceful and so quiet no noise pollution
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Country country road with the rice patties so simple lifestyle it seems like.
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Due to the mountains here they upload is pretty slow I'll be posting more pictures pretty soon
 
I am still in Tokushima.

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Now I'm going downhill for maybe 6 km what a relief.

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Saturday night and I got the camp free at the beach this was across the street it's kind of like a guest house type deal and I walked in there and I told the guy I'm hungry man give me something very simple anyway you fixed up something and it was just way too much food for me but I tried to eat as much as I could and it was so good and it only cost 2015 and it was so delicious

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This is a house that I was invited into what you see on the roof is a propeller from a boat many years ago the owner of the house told me he was born in this house and he's 68 years old and his son is also a cycle is also he also helped me find the beach that I'm going to later on in the day and at his house I got a flat tire from coming down from 6 km of hills I punctured my tire
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So this is how they lived in the mountains like 70 years ago actually much more because this was the his parents house so I have no idea but very unique house yeah it's amazing how tidy everything is after 70 years
 
The North Kyushu , Yamaguchi area was a heavy rain from yesterday.
In Route 55, it does not seem to rain today when I look at the rain cloud radar (forecast) of the Shikoku district.
As the temperature seems to become around 30 degrees Celsius, be careful with heat stroke.
Route 55 has few both town and convenience stores.
As there is a rest station as the Cape Muroto-misaki area is one of the pilgrim of the difficult places, please use it.
 
The North Kyushu, Yamaguchi area was a heavy rain from yesterday.
In Route 55, it does not seem to rain today when I look at the rain cloud radar (forecast) of the Shikoku district.
As the temperature seems to become around 30 degrees Celsius, be careful with heat stroke.
Route 55 has few both town and convenience stores.
As there is a rest station as the Cape Muroto-misaki area is one of the pilgrim of the difficult places, please use it.
Thank you it got so hot so quickly after 10:00 a.m. this morning I'm at a rest area right now there's a family Mart I'm charging my batteries for the last 2 hours.
I hope to travel about 30 more kilos kilometers actually and then try to find a place to sleep tonight I have a feeling it's going to rain for the next 3 to 4 days.
I end up pushing my bike I don't know I'm going to say 6 km up the hill and then make a long story short I got some help by bystand by someone passing by him and his wife put my bike on the under truck after the flat mountain and went downhill and then it took me another 3 hours to find a campsite last night but all is well I really have to watch the heat today though and drink a lot of water basically I don't eat much I just posted a picture of the above post that's what I ate all day no I had breakfast also but when I posted I couldn't eat it all it was just too much.
So if you know any campsites from where I am I'll post a picture of the place that I ate and then I should be able to go 30 km today and I know it's going to rain but I know it's going to rain road heavy too in the next couple days
 
This is the pilgrimage trail.
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These little people help you on the right path to the next temples.

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This is where I had dinner last night it was so much food I couldn't eat it all cost 2,000 yen.

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I'm leaving the campsite on Sunday morning and then I got some mountains to climb and then all downhill.




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Riding today
July 9th Sunday

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This is where I had dinner last night it was so good but too much food.

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This is a Frenchman I meant at the convenience store he's doing the 88 pilgrimage although he's taking it in parts we got to chat a lot really nice guy too he's from France.

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This is one of the temples I am not to for sure what number it was but it's a really a nice temple on the main Street so I didn't have to climb 500 to see a temple .

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Okay it's noon time I'm not too for sure where I'm at but there's a rest. Here Lawson's and I'm going to try to bike 30 more kilometers and look for a place to stay unfortunately it's going to rain for the next three nights so I'm going to stay put and there's no convenience stores as one of our members said so I don't know what to do.
 
Omikuji - shrine fortune slip
I'm not very good at reading these, as the spacing threw me off but I think this is how it goes:




The water in the pond has melted in the spring breeze, and thirst-quenching flowers are shrouded in shadow.

It is a lot that opens up the bad luck you have had up to now and makes you prosper as if you could smell the flowers on a warm spring day.
Do the right thing in your heart, be kind and faithful to others, and you will be blessed with good fortune.

Fortune - Small fortune

Desire - You will get what you wish for, but if you do not get what you wish for, you will have bad luck.
Waiting - things are slow in coming
Lost things - always between things that appear/go out
Travel - Don't be boisterous/make a disturbance
Business - Good luck in business, profitable
Study - too many thoughts, study.
Market - Sell; if you hold on, loss.
Disputes - Winning is enough.
Love - Trust in the right person.
Moving - hurry up.
Birth - safe, mother and child will be fine.
Sickness - choose the doctor, they will heal you.
Engagement - Love will be good... if you keep it secret.

Thank you so much for translating .it really applies to my personal life and the current state that I'm in as you know I'm traveling in Japan and there's a reason why I'm traveling Japan. and I just hope my journey is safe and can fulfill something I dreamed about for 25 years not really dream but I wanted to do for the last 25 years. On this journey and I then been help a few times on this trip and people have gone out of their way to help me and I offered them lunch and whatever I offered them but they refused so I just I'm happy that I'm doing well is best for me at the moment in my life.

I mentioned selling actually I'm trying to sell all my music here in Gibson Les Paul fender squier base fender bass amp and telecaster style and some other music equipment but I haven't sold anything yet.
 
This is where I stayed last night actually got a little bit cold at the ocean side.

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Actually I'm really moving well riding slow one thing I learned so far what two things one got to have a lighter tent and two you got to have bandage

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The local police came by three times during the night and well actually nothing happened so I guess they're pretty much accustomed for people sleeping on the bench here at night time.
It actually did get a bit chilly man and the mosquitoes were pretty bad also.
I believe today's July 11th Tuesday and I took off at 5:30 in the morning and it's 8:00 a.m. no it's 7:20 a.m. and been cycling since 5:30 this morning I'm going to try to get to cochi and maybe not coaching but 20 km before coaching today that's my goal the temples unfortunately I really recommend anybody who wants to do this to really do it by motorbike the bicycling there's a few that you can visit just pull off and they're along the coast not up in the mountains but basically if they're really hard to reach by bicycle.
 
This is where I stayed last night actually got a little bit cold at the ocean side.

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Actually I'm really moving well riding slow one thing I learned so far what two things one got to have a lighter tent and two you got to have bandage

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The local police came by three times during the night and well actually nothing happened so I guess they're pretty much accustomed for people sleeping on the bench here at night time.
It actually did get a bit chilly man and the mosquitoes were pretty bad also.
I believe today's July 11th Tuesday and I took off at 5:30 in the morning and it's 8:00 a.m. no it's 7:20 a.m. and been cycling since 5:30 this morning I'm going to try to get to cochi and maybe not coaching but 20 km before coaching today that's my goal the temples unfortunately I really recommend anybody who wants to do this to really do it by motorbike the bicycling there's a few that you can visit just pull off and they're along the coast not up in the mountains but basically if they're really hard to reach by bicycle.
Hey man good morning everything went okay I actually slept quite well once I put out to sleeping bag and covered myself.
I'm going to Kochi,
 
I need to find a bicycle shop to buy a spare tube although I got one left I did have a flat tire and unfortunately this morning I had my first spill I can say I was at stops the signals and I was putting my foot Left foot down and unfortunately there was more ground to cover and the bike tipped over on me I fell down and I hit my injured knee and I smashed my palm and my elbow my this is on the left side but like I mentioned earlier you got to have bandages when you travel luckily I had water to wrench everything off and I'm able to cycle I'm sure in about 3 hours from now it might be pretty much in pain I'm still in shock and that was a hard spill man I'm not joking you like bang right on the pavement and of course I was wearing my helmet but I seem to recovered okay of course I won't know until about 3 hours from now but I hit my palm my left hand Palm pretty hard I got it all bandage and I'm sure in about 3 hours it's going to be hurting for certain.
 
If I'm going to have pain that is really painful then when I get to coach you I'll see what I can do about seeing a doctor because it's my answer it's my injured me actually that I injured again so but I don't think I broke any bones but then again like I said I'm a little in shock so when you're in shock you don't feel too much pain and my palm I meant I really hit it hard man and I know it's going to be all bruised and but I don't think I twisted any tannins or whatever it's called or muscles in it but I smashed it hard.
 
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