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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230 km from Tanabe to Tanabe, about 2 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha, Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha, Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I and back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Kii Peninsula, south of Osaka, is one of the most heavily forested and least populated parts of Japan, a knot of steep, cedar-covered mountains that has been a place of pilgrimage for more than a thousand years. The pilgrimage routes of Kumano, called the Kumano Kodo, were inscribed by UNESCO in 2004 together with the sacred sites of Koyasan and Yoshino and Omine, and the Ohechi route is the long mountain branch that starts near Tanabe, on the coast, about eleven kilometres from the point on your map.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô write-up.
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Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô is where the day begins. Next is Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha.
Deep in the mountains of the Kii Peninsula, where forested ridges fold one behind another like the scenery in a woodblock print, stands the head shrine of the Kumano faith. Kumano Hongū Taisha is one of the three grand shrines of Kumano, and for over a thousand years emperors, aristocrats and ordinary pilgrims have walked here along the network of mountain trails known as the Kumano Kodō, now part of the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range listed by UNESCO.
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Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha. 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.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I write-up.
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Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - I, about halfway. Next is back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha.
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Read the complete Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha write-up.
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back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha write-up.
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back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha comes up about 170 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô closes the day.
Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô → Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha → Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hayatama Taisha → back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha → Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.