CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Shingū it runs 336 km to Shingū; allow about 5 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the, Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N, Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K and back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Hardly any approach in Japan is as dramatic as the one up to Seiganto-ji. A temple has been here for well over a millennium, founded according to tradition in the fourth century, but what hits you is how it sits: a vermilion three-storey pagoda in front of a 133-metre waterfall, the tallest single-drop fall in the country, with the cedar forest pressing close on both sides. The temple and the neighbouring Nachi shrine share the mountain and the same story. Together they form one of the three Kumano shrines on the Kii Peninsula, and the pilgrim trails that link them are on the World Heritage list.
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Kumano Sanzan - Seiganto-ji is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N.
The Kumano Kodō is a web of ancient pilgrimage trails across the mountains of the Kii Peninsula, south of Osaka, leading to the three grand shrines of Kumano: Hongū, Hayatama and Nachi. For over a thousand years, emperors, aristocrats and ordinary pilgrims walked these paths through cedar and cypress forest, stopping at small subsidiary shrines along the way. The Nakahechi, the most popular of the routes, leaves the coast near Tanabe and climbs inland through the hills. It is part of the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range, listed by UNESCO in 2004, one of only two pilgrimage routes on the list along with the Camino de Santiago, with which it is twinned.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N. Next is Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K.
Mount Kōya is one of Japan's great sacred places, a high basin in the mountains of northern Wakayama where the monk Kūkai founded a monastic centre for Shingon Buddhism in the early ninth century. Today it is a town of over a hundred temples, many of which take in overnight guests, set among towering cedars. South of the summit plateau, deep in the forested ridges, run the old pilgrim trails that link Kōya with the Kumano shrines, part of the network inscribed by UNESCO as the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
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Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K, about halfway. Next is back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N.
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back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N sits at 151 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the.
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back through Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the comes up about 283 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kumano Sanzan - Seiganto-ji.
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Kumano Sanzan - Seiganto-ji closes the day.
Kumano Sanzan - Seiganto-ji → Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the → Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N → Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K → back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - N → back through Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the → Kumano Sanzan - Seiganto-ji is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.