Thursday, September 8, 2022
Chikatsuyu to Takahara on the Nakahechi
Monday, May 30, 2022
Ajijoji Nightlife District Tanabe
Ajijoji Nightlife District
Usually located adjacent to the main train station in Japanese cities and towns can be found "nightlife districts", focused primarily on selling alcohol, food, and female entertainment, and "companionship".
Monday, March 7, 2022
Funatama Shrine to Chikatsuyu
Funatama Shrine
This post covers the rest of my third day walking along the Kumano Kodo as part of the Saigoku Pilgrimage that follows the same route for the first week or so. After stopping at Funatama Shrine I carried on through the silent forest.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Funatama Shrine & Tamahime Inari Shrine
Funatama and Tamahime Inari are a set of small hokora shrines found along the Nakahechi route of the Kumano Kodo. They lie on the Otonashi River, one of the three rivers that meet at Hongu, the centre of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes and shrines.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Misty Mountains of Kumano Kodo
Monday, April 12, 2021
Horakuji Temple 3 on the Kinki Fudo Myo Pilgrimage
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Hosshinmon Oji
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Kumano Hongu Taisha
Kumano Hongu Taisha is one of the three shrines that form the Kumano Sanzan, the focus of the famous Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage routes that are now a World Heritage Site.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Kumano Hongu Heritage Center
Hongu is kind of the central site of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes and shrines. I arrived there late on the second day of my walk along the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, ostensibky the oldest pilgrimage in Japan, and which follows parts of the Kumano Kodo for the first week.
Hongu is part of the World Heritage Sites, and so a brand new center has been constructed that offers all kind of information for visitors.
It was made out of local timber and for me was actually more interesting than all the historical and visitor information.
After here I headed to Hoingu Taishi for a quick visit before finding my lodgings for the night.