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 Yoshino-chō it runs 444 km to Yoshino-chō; allow about 6 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi, Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K, Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha and back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Yoshino is the most famous cherry-blossom mountain in Japan, and it earns the fame. Tens of thousands of trees, planted over centuries as offerings by pilgrims, climb the ridge in four zones, so the bloom moves up the mountain through April like a slow pink tide. But Yoshino is older and stranger than a flower festival. It is the gateway to the Kii mountains, a vast tangle of steep forested ranges where mountain ascetics of the Shugendo tradition have walked for more than a thousand years, and the pilgrimage path of Omine runs along the high ridges to Kumano, passing places so sacred that women were long banned from entering. The Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range were inscribed by UNESCO in 2004.
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Yoshino and Ômine - Yoshimizu-jinja is where the day begins. 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.
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Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K.
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back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi.
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back through Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi comes up about 386 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yoshino and Ômine - Yoshimizu-jinja.
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Yoshino and Ômine - Yoshimizu-jinja closes the day.
Yoshino and Ômine - Yoshimizu-jinja → Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi → Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K → Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kumano Sanzan - Kumano Hongû Taisha → back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pilgrimage Routes - Kumano Sankeimichi - K → back through Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi → Yoshino and Ômine - Yoshimizu-jinja is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.