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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213 km from Kumano to Kumano, about 2 h 45 of riding. The stops in between: Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha, Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the, Kumano Sanzan - Nachi no Ôtaki and back through Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha.
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 comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the. Next is Kumano Sanzan - Nachi no Ôtaki.
Water falls a hundred and thirty-three metres in a single drop at Nachi, the highest single fall in Japan, and it is not just a scenic attraction but a god. The Nachi no Ōtaki has been worshipped since long before the shrines were built, as a place where a kami lives, and the Kumano Nachi Taisha, a vermilion shrine on the hillside, was set up to honour it. Next door, the Buddhist temple of Seiganto-ji, with its three-storey pagoda in front of the falls, is one of the most photographed views in Japan, and shows how the two religions lived side by side.
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Kumano Sanzan - Nachi no Ôtaki, 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 sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha.
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back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha comes up about 193 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I.
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Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I closes the day.
Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I → Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha → Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the → Kumano Sanzan - Nachi no Ôtaki is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kumano Sanzan - Nachi no Ôtaki → back through Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the → back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.