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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From Tanabe it runs 377 km to Tanabe; allow about 4 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji, Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi and back through Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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 - Fudarakusan-ji.
Fudarakusan-ji is a small temple on the coast of the Kii Peninsula, in the town of Nachikatsuura, and its odd history is a sea journey. In the old days some monks believed Fudaraku, the paradise of the bodhisattva Kannon, lay far across the ocean to the south, and from this beach they set off in boats nailed shut, with a little food and water, to sail toward it and not come back. The practice is called Fudaraku Tokai, and the temple remembers the monks who made the voyage, which gives the sea in front of it a haunting quality.
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Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi.
The Ômine Okugakemichi is not a road at all, at least not one you can ride. It is a mountain trail that runs for about a hundred kilometres along the spine of the Ômine range in the Kii peninsula, linking Yoshino in the north with Kumano in the south, over peaks, ridges and rock faces. For more than a thousand years, yamabushi, the mountain ascetics of the Shugendo tradition, have walked it as a spiritual practice, combining Buddhist, Shinto and older mountain beliefs, with rituals at sacred rocks, waterfalls and cliffs along the way. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range, inscribed in 2004.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi write-up.
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about 187 km into the recorded legs you reach Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi. Next is back through Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji write-up.
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back through Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji, late in the day. 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.
Back at Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô. That is the ride.
Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô → Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji → Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi → back through Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kumano Sanzan - Fudarakusan-ji → Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - Ô is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.