CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 229 km round trip from Shingū - roughly 2 h 59 in the saddle. On the way it passes Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I, Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest, Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the and back through Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest.
Shingū sits where the Kumano River meets the Pacific, and Hayatama Taisha stands in the middle of the town, a vermilion shrine among tall trees, so close to the ordinary streets that it feels like part of daily life. It is one of the three grand shrines of Kumano, and the legend of its founding is tied to a great rock above the town, Gotobiki-iwa, where the deity is said to have descended before moving to the shrine below. The rock is reached by a steep stone stairway through the woods and the view from it is wide and quiet.
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Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha is where the day begins. Next is Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I.
The Iseji is the eastern branch of the old pilgrimage roads to the three great Kumano shrines, running down the coast of the Kii Peninsula from the Grand Shrines of Ise to Kumano. For centuries, pilgrims followed it through forests and over passes, and stretches of its stone paving still survive in the hills, laid to keep the path usable in one of the rainiest parts of Japan. Owase, a little up the coast, regularly ranks among the wettest towns in the country, and the moss on the stones and the dripping cedar forests show it. The Iseji forms part of the UNESCO listing of the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
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Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest.
Rain made this place, and a lot of it. The Kii Peninsula sticks into the Pacific south of Osaka, steep, forested and very wet, with some of the heaviest rainfall in Japan, and the Nachi river tumbles down its flank in a cascade that has been worshipped for well over a thousand years. Nachi Falls drops one hundred and thirty-three metres in a single plunge, the tallest single-drop waterfall in the country, and the Shinto shrine at its foot, Hiro Jinja, treats the falls themselves as the god. Beside it, on a ridge above, Kumano Nachi Taisha and the Buddhist temple Seiganto-ji sit side by side, with a red three-storey pagoda that frames the white thread of water like a postcard. The two religions here have long lived in the same compound.
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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest. Next is Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the.
The Kumano Kodō, the ancient pilgrimage routes, link it with two other great shrines, Hayatama in Shingū and Nachi with its tall waterfall, and with the sacred mountains of Kōyasan and Yoshino further north. UNESCO listed the whole network in 2004 as one of only two pilgrimage routes on its register, the other being the road to Santiago de Compostela.
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Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the, about halfway. Next is back through Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest.
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back through Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I.
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back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I comes up about 207 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha.
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Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha closes the day.
Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha → Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I → Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest → Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the → back through Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kumano Sanzan - Nachi Primeval Forest → back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I → Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.