Japan is home to a variety of hiking routes that are unique in their own right. These less trodden trails make for an ...

Located south of Osaka on the Kii Peninsula of Japan‘s Honshū island, the Kumano Kodo trail system is an ancient religious route that connects three sacred sites, Yoshino and Omine, Kumano ...

Unwrap the mystery of Japan’s spirituality at Unesco World Heritage site Kumano Kodo. The pilgrimage routes to Wakayama’s Kumano Sanzan shrines in the Kii Mountains, known as the Kumano Kodo ...

The Kumano Kodo, leading to Kumano, the sacred land of the Gods, is one of the few pilgrimage roads designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Twenty years after the designation, we explore the ...

The tranquillity of the Kumano Kodo’s trails, which forms part of Yoshino-Kumano National Park, is matched by the rivers that flow through the region’s lush gorges and mountains; most of the time.

Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites - Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan - linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities ...

Pioneering ecologist Minakata Kumagusu explored the forests of Kumano. Join Peter Barakan as he follows Minakata's path and discovers a universe in nature. Rising above rice fields like a giant ...

Mount Yoshino offers a good (and beautiful) reason to get out of Tokyo and Kyoto and venture off the beaten path.