Of these ten journeys, this is the only one in which walking plays the lead. Arranged properly, walking is more luxurious than any vehicle.
The skeleton
- Day 1 — Arrive in Kii-Tanabe; a short warm-up stretch; a hot-spring guesthouse
- Days 2–4 — Three curated hours of trail per day (the steepest sections avoided), luggage driven ahead, lunch from a mountain teahouse
- Day 5 — Walk into Kumano Hongu Taisha — an ending with the weight of a ceremony — then the river onsen
House rules of this journey
No hurrying; a car comes whenever the walking stops being pleasant. Rain has its B-side (onsen and the pilgrimage museum). Phones, ideally, evenings only.
This is the skeleton of a journey that happened exactly once. Yours will begin from a blank page.
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