DESTINATIONS

Many pilgrimage paths run through the sacred Kii Mountains. Places of faith, places of training, and now, travel destinations. These paths are the origin of Japanese travel.

Kii Peninsula
Area Map

  • KUMANO KODO

  • OMINE OKUGAKE MICHI

  • Kyoasan Pilgimage Route

  • Iseji

  • Kohechi

  • Nakahechi

  • Kiiji

  • Ochechi

OMINE OKUGAKE MICHI

The principal training site for Shugendo mountain asceticism.
The route stretches 170km along the ridge of the Omine mountain range with an altitude of between 1200 metres and 1900 metres.
Places of worship and ascetic practice where the gods and Buddhas reside, known as Omine 75 Nabiki, remain here as ruins.

KYOASAN PILGIMAGE ROUTE

KOHECHI

KIIJI

NAKAHECHI

ISEJI

There is one of the places on the Kumano Kodo from which one can see the sea: The Iseji path that connects Ise Jingu to Kumano Sanzan.

KUMANO KODO

Originating in nature worship, and comprised of a mixture of Shinto, Buddhism, and Shugendo, the Kumano Sanzan drew faith as an important sacred place.Faith focusing on it emerged among the nobility and spread to the samurai and to ordinary people.So many people started lining up to visit Kumano, like a column of ants, that it came to be called the “Kumano Pilgrimage of the Ants”.

OCHECHI

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