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和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Nachi no Taki

那智勝浦町紀南

A drop of 133 metres. The fall itself is the deity of Hiro Jinja, which has no hall at all.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Kamikura Jinja

新宮市紀南

A giant rock at the top of 538 steep stone steps. At the Oto festival men run down carrying torches.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Daimonzaka

那智勝浦町紀南

A paved stretch of the Nakahechi route of the Kumano Kodo, running through an avenue of cedars.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Kohechi

田辺市ほか紀中

The route joining Koyasan directly to Kumano Hongu. It crosses three passes.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Fudarakusanji

那智勝浦町紀南

The starting point of the Fudaraku crossings, in which a monk was sealed into a boat and set adrift towards the southern sea.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Kimiidera

和歌山市紀北

Known for the earliest cherry blossom in the Kansai region. You climb 231 steps.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Kokawadera

紀の川市紀北

The dry landscape garden before the main hall is a Place of Scenic Beauty.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Negoroji

岩出市紀北

Its great pagoda is the largest wooden tahoto in Japan and a National Treasure. It was the base of the Negoro warriors, who carried firearms.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Tamatsushima Jinja

和歌山市紀北

It enshrines the deity of waka poetry. A scenic spot sung of in the Manyoshu.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Kishu Toshogu

和歌山市紀北

You climb the 108 steps of the Samurai Slope. It is called the Nikko of the Kansai region.

和歌山県 · Shrines & temples

Nakahechi

田辺市紀中

The most walked of the pilgrimage routes. Small shrines called the ninety-nine oji line the way.

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.

鳥取県 · Shrines & temples

Hakuto Jinja

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Held to be the setting of the White Hare of Inaba in the Kojiki. Okuninushi helped a hare whose skin had been stripped off by sharks, and that hare th…

鳥取県 · Shrines & temples

Mitokusan Sanbutsuji

三朝町中部

The Nageiredo at its inner sanctuary is a National Treasure: a hall wedged into a hollow in a sheer cliff, and no one knows how it was built. Reaching…