Yunomine Onsen - Kumano Hongū Taisha Grand Shrine (Kumano Kodo)
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- Distance
- 1.71 mi
- Elevation gain
- 846 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 978 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,158 ft
- TrailRank
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71
5
- Min elevation
- 272 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- one hour 18 minutes
- Coordinates
- 258
- Uploaded
- July 13, 2016
- Recorded
- July 2016
near Hongū, Wakayama (Japan)
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Itinerary description
This is a one way walk starting in Yunomine Onsen and finishing at the Hongū Taisha Grand Shrine. You can then take the bus back to Yunomine Onsen (or walk back). The bus stop is near the entrance to the Shrine, just on the other side of the main road.
The starting point of the trail is in Yunomine Onsen after crossing a little bridge in the center of the village. It goes uphill through the forest and then down again just before arriving to the Hongu Shrine with a great view over the river valley. To see the Shrine, you have to walk up another smaller hill, where the shrine has been moved after having been flooded several times at its initial placement next to the river. After visiting the Shrine you go back again to the valley to see the world’s biggest torii gate which has been built some years ago next to the original shrine placement. You walk by rice fields and a huge river bed which was mostly dry when we went there (at the beginning of July) and being used as a parking lot. As for drinking water along the way, we found some at the small temple less than half way through the trail (see waypoint “templo y fuente”).
The starting point of the trail is in Yunomine Onsen after crossing a little bridge in the center of the village. It goes uphill through the forest and then down again just before arriving to the Hongu Shrine with a great view over the river valley. To see the Shrine, you have to walk up another smaller hill, where the shrine has been moved after having been flooded several times at its initial placement next to the river. After visiting the Shrine you go back again to the valley to see the world’s biggest torii gate which has been built some years ago next to the original shrine placement. You walk by rice fields and a huge river bed which was mostly dry when we went there (at the beginning of July) and being used as a parking lot. As for drinking water along the way, we found some at the small temple less than half way through the trail (see waypoint “templo y fuente”).
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Religious site
892 ft
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near the trail's starting point (bridge) https://es.wikiloc.com/rutas-senderismo/yunomine-onsen-kumano-hongu-taisha-grand-shrine-kumano-kodo-13986451/photo-8666938
just before arriving at Hongū Taisha Grand Shrine https://es.wikiloc.com/rutas-senderismo/yunomine-onsen-kumano-hongu-taisha-grand-shrine-kumano-kodo-13986451/photo-8666946
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Easy and short but nice track. We enjoyed it! Thanks! 😄