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和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Ohechi

白浜町紀南

The route that runs along the coast. You walk in the salt wind.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Hiro Hachimangu

広川町紀中

A place tied to Hamaguchi Goryo, who saved the villagers from a tsunami. The shrine halls are Important Cultural Properties.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Mandara no Taki

田辺市紀中

空海が開いたと伝わる修行の滝。

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Nyonindo

高野町高野

In the days when women were barred from the mountain, this was as far as they could come. The only one left of seven such halls.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Jisonin

九度山町高野

Where Kukai's mother lived. A Koyasan for women, where votive tablets shaped as breasts are dedicated.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Niutsuhime Jinja

かつらぎ町高野

Said to have ceded the land of Koyasan to Kukai. An arched bridge crosses the water.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Choishimichi

九度山町高野

About 24 kilometres from Jisonin to Koyasan, with a stone marker at every cho along the way.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Awashima Jinja

和歌山市紀北

A deity who cures the illnesses of women. Dedicated dolls fill the whole precinct.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Idakiso Jinja

和歌山市紀北

It enshrines the deity of trees, held to be the origin of the name Kii, the land of trees.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Fudaraku Tokai

那智勝浦町紀南

The boat was nailed shut from outside and set out for the southern sea. A reconstruction is on display.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Asuka Jinja

新宮市紀南

An old shrine backed by Mount Horai. A place of the Xu Fu legend.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Hashiguiiwa

串本町紀南

A line of rocks said to be what remains of Kobo Daishi's attempt to build a bridge in one night.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Saki no Yu

白浜町紀南

Muro no Yu, one of the three oldest springs of Japan. It is sung of in the Manyoshu.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Kumano Kodo

田辺市ほか紀中

With the Camino de Santiago, one of only two pilgrimage roads in the world inscribed as World Heritage.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Shirahama

白浜町紀南

White sand, and Engetsuto, the island the setting sun passes through.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Adventure World

白浜町紀南

It has bred more giant pandas than anywhere else in Japan.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Okunoin Path

高野町高野

Two kilometres of cedars, with over 200,000 gravestones. Sengoku commanders lie there without regard to which side they fought on.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Wakayama-jo

和歌山市紀北

The seat of the Kishu Tokugawa, one of the three branch houses. The keep is a reconstruction.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Nanko Ume

みなべ町紀中

Sixty percent of Japan's plums. Whole slopes turn white with blossom.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Tomogashima

和歌山市紀北

Meiji-era gun batteries lie buried in the forest. It is called the Laputa island.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Kuroshio Market

和歌山市紀北

A tuna-cutting show three times a day.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Dorokyo

新宮市ほか紀南

A gorge on the Kumano river. You go upstream by water-jet boat.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

和歌山市紀北

Among Japan's great print collections, in a Kurokawa building of stacked tile-like eaves beside the castle.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Wakayama Prefectural Museum

和歌山市紀北

The twin of the art museum next door, built around Kumano pilgrimage material and the Kishu Tokugawa collection.