Tokei Shrine Tanabe World Heritage Site
Tokei Shrine is the main shrine of Tanabe, Wakayama, known as the gateway to the Kumano Kodo.
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Tokei Shrine is the main shrine of Tanabe, Wakayama, known as the gateway to the Kumano Kodo.
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".
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.
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.