On the 27th we visited Tokuda and his family. He bought a house up on Mineyama, the same mountain that has the park you saw in my tree in the previous post.

The next morning we went to see Yukiko's parent's garden, which is about a quarter mile form their house.

On April 29th we went to a temple, Hirao-jinjya, There we saw a kabuki play, in which the mayor was one of the actors.

We also had a chance to walk around the temple area.
There is a tradition for taller torii, temple arches, that is you throw up a stone and can get it to stay on the beam, that you will have good luck.