Discover Mt.Koya - Kumano Kodo

Koyasan, a religious city in the sky, is home to more than one hundred Buddhist temples, all concentrated at an altitude of 1,000 meters above sea level. Koyasan boasts a wonderful scenic beauty where Japanese history, culture, and nature are concentrated.
Koyasan has a history of 1,200 years. Koyasan, with its 1,200-year history, is a heavenly world far beyond our imagination.

Danjo Garan / Okuno in

The Danjo Garan, the symbol of Koyasan, with its main hall, Kondo, and the vermilion-colored multi-purpose pagoda, Nemoto-daito. Okuno-in, a solemn approach lined with some 200,000 monuments and tombstones along a 2-km cedar tree-lined path leading from Ichino-bashi Bridge
These two sacred sites of Koyasan are still visited by many believers.
The unique, serene, and mystical scene of Koyasan, covered with large cedar trees over 1,000 years old, continues to captivate the hearts of visitors to Japan.

Shukubo

If you have come all the way to Koyasan, stay at a temple. You can enjoy the same lifestyle as the monks, including vegetarian cooking, sutra copying, and Zen meditation.

Pilgrimage to religious sanctuaries is one of the main objectives of tourism in travel. Religious temples that strongly reflect the local climate, culture, temperament, and history are exotic places that give us a deep sense of different cultures.
The Kumano Kodo is one of Japan's representative sacred pilgrimage spots, and has been visited by many people of all ranks since ancient times.

Daimonzaka - Nachi no Taisha Shrine

The unique serenity of being surrounded by cedars that are over 1,000 years old is a quality that can only be found by visiting this Daimonzaka. Walking along the stone pavement, you will feel the Japanese spirit of harmony that has existed in harmony with nature since ancient times.
Nachi no Taisha Shrine, with its beautiful waterfalls that look like white threads hanging down and the contrast of the vermilion three-story pagoda, is another popular spot that is not to be missed.

Pilgrim's Journey

The long Kumano Kodo is dotted with original landscapes that can be called the spiritual home of the Japanese people, including tree-lined avenues of lush green forests, Dosojin (guardian deities of the road), remote farming villages, and spectacular views of mountains and terraced rice paddies filled with a sea of clouds.
Walking along the stone pavements of Kumano Kodo, covered with deep nature and history, you can hear the footsteps of ancient pilgrims from far away, and feel as if you have traveled beyond time and space on a journey of historical romance.