Kumano Kodo 2023
Chronological record of the day, still being edited
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YAMAP, they give you badges like this? planning stage
Day0(9/24)
16:00 Meet at HND
HND
SHM
↓🚕 30min
Members swimming in the sea just after sunset
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Day 1(9/25)
↓🥾9h
5:00
Going to bed at 9:00 p.m.
I was supposed to wake up at 6:00 but woke up at 5:00. 8 hours!
Everyone is still sleeping... I should be the one who should be sleeping the most, since I am the least fit.
Through our conversation on the first day, I knew I had to get more physical.
For example, if I am invited to go bolting on a natural rock, I would say, "Sounds fun! I'm not sure if I can do it," I'll say, "This looks fun! I can't say, "I'm in! I can't say "I'm in!
Now, I'm going to try to sleep again. 5:30
Hmmm, no, the spirit can't sleep, so let's just lay the body down and let it rest.
6:00
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Departure
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[Dried plums
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8:10 Starting point
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8:36 Prince of Sleeplessness
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around Takahara Kumano Shrine
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My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think it was around this point that I got a call from the inn on the first day saying, "Mr. Nishio's wallet is forgotten.
Idea of taking a cab back to pick it up.
Proposal to have it mailed to you.
Mailing is once refused because "there is cash in the mail".
You may destroy the cash!"
I was able to have my wallet sent home by registered cashier's check.
12:25 Jujo Oji
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Near Chikaruro
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16:49 Arrival!
SEN.REATEAT CHIKATSUYU
Work to make sure Fire pit
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It's done.
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Roast marshmallows
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Record what you drink and what you eat
Pocari Sweat 500ml 125kcal Salt 0.6
VAAM x 3 0kcal Salt 0.5 x 3
Salty lychee 170 kcal Salt 0.55
Happy Turn Calories 269kca Salt 1.44
Salt Charge Unknown (6 or more, I lost track because I put the trash in my bag)
As 10 pieces, 110 kcal, 1.2g salt
Kaki no tane x 3
I googled it, and it seems it's a common case of mountain climbing pain.
I want to apply a poultice (feitas). My neck and shoulders are stiff too, but I might get photosensitivity, so I'll pass. I'm taking a bath to warm up.
Day 2(9/26)
8:30 Departure from KONDORO
↓🥾5h
↓14:10 ~1h Bus
Meet up with other members at 17~18 pm
♨️ stay at Yumine Onsen
Go to bed at 9:00 p.m., get up at 6:00 a.m.
Departure at 8:30
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9:50 Prince Tsugakura
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A lot of foreigners got off the bus at Kawayu Onsen, what's there to see?
Is it written "Oosaihara-mae" and called "Oyunohara-mae"?
Arrive safely at Kumano Hongu by bus.
It looks like they built an information center and a museum since it was registered as a World Heritage site.
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However, it was like a greenhouse because there was no air conditioning in spite of the glass walls.
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You know, it says Chubenji, a difficult road for ascetic practices. https://gyazo.com/ada71364d50e0a41051979749536e5cc
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Dropout Michiyugawa, a village that used to be prosperous but seems to have been destroyed.
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Chronology, I should have taken a closer shot.
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Hmmm, lack of resolution on the part of the original image.
We'll find out later if it's online.
An explanatory video was shown at the information center.
Miscellaneous Notes
[Shugendo was established when esoteric Buddhism and Taoism were introduced into mountain worship.
Kumano's value went up.
Mountain forest practitioners since the 8th century
Kumano Head Office was treated as [Paradise
The World Heritage site designates three shrines and two temples as sacred sites Kumano Sanzan. They descended as three moons.
Kumano Hayatama Shrine
At least the 12th century?
Tree planted by Taira Shigemori
road repair
To the inn
No cabs available, and even if they were called, it would take an hour to get a cab.
The first thing I did was to search for the phone number of the cab company that was the top suggestion, and the number that came up was "The number you have dialed is no longer in use.
I arrived early and was at the information center, so it would have been best for me to ask the staff about later transportation options, but I didn't realize it.
Members tactfully asked to be picked up and dropped off at the inn.
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jar baths
Head to [hot spring bathtub heated from below
Tsubo-yu was registered as a World Heritage site as a Kumano pilgrimage site.
This is a World Heritage-listed hot spring where you can bathe.
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They tell me all the slots are already filled and I have no choice but to leave.
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Day 3(9/27)
11:00 Arrival at Shingu
12:45 Departure from Shingu Station
16:10 Arrival in Nagoya
Canceled.
Go to bed at 9:00 p.m., get up at 6:00 a.m.
Try again [hot spring bathtub heated from below
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Bathing in the World Heritage Site, achievements unlocked!
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Yunomine Onsen is the oldest hot spring in Japan
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The story of the mysterious color of the Kumano River
The color of the water is not green like ordinary rivers, but blue and unique. The water has a light blue color due to the mixture of lime in the water. --- Kumano River - Wikipedia [Buddhist service for the anniversary of the death of Shotoku Taishi (orig. the 22nd day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar)
When I went through the tunnel, I found myself in Lawson.
Tricky Tickets
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A single ticket from Shingu to Tokyo metropolitan area will generate a transfer discount of 1,500 yen by setting the transfer judgment to True for the express ticket to Nagoya on the 27th and the Shinkansen express ticket to Shinagawa on the 28th, which are two different days.
Overnight stay in Nagoya is treated as a "temporary stopover".
When I heard about the ticketing process, I didn't understand it, but when I saw the real thing, I understood that this is the kind of puzzle-like thing they wanted to do.
The $1500 discount is not the goal.
Bottom line, I couldn't get it on the online reservation site, and when I came to the Shingu station counter, the local staff couldn't get it, and I had to wait for 20 people or something at a ticket machine that had a video call connection to some center.
choo-choo train
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Heh, I see.
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No, this is not the "Dove Poppo" I know.
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I see. So they were unloading Yoshino cedars at the Kumano River.
Xufu Park
I was curious about what the mysterious Chinatown-like thing that I could see from the station was, so I went there and found it was the tomb of Xu Fu. https://gyazo.com/aded3c91751fdd90ae989023759b1bf0
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Wow, I didn't know that.
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Interesting Monuments
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Xu Fu properly carried out the idea of Confucius. Confucius said, "In a world where reason is not practiced, let us go abroad on a raft.
During the Warring States Period in China, a man named Lu Zhonglian said, "If the Qin Dynasty ever came to power, I would immediately throw myself into the East Sea to die. I cannot become a citizen of the Qin Dynasty by any means. The people were moved by Lu Zhonglian's spirit and thought his words were very clever. However, he only said these words, but did not act on them. Compared to Xu Fu, who fled far away from the Qin Dynasty to the pure world, Lu Zhonglian was a world away from the Qin Dynasty.
Overall view of the monument
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The fifth year of Tempo is 1834 in the Western calendar. https://gyazo.com/8e74b55c7062d5ca7e44a64d65656f8c
Interesting to have a sense of the negotiation pitfalls.
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Bus x 3
They're ready to bring in tour tourists from the continent.
Heading for Nagoya on the Nanki Limited Express
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Nano museum, nice.
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You can play with it by shooting at a wide angle of the aori lol.
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Next is "Tsu"!
This may be my first visit!
It's hard to pee standing up at a urinal on a train that sways from side to side.
I succeeded successfully, but I'm wondering if there are people who fail and spread it around!
They say the next stop is Tsu, but they stop at a mysterious station.
Because of a train mishap, I see.
It was too funny that as a punchline to the story about how you can become a Yamabushi if you do the training once a year for 3 years, once you become a Yamabushi, you can enter a special site and learn remotely.
This site is quite funny, with links to Nico Nico Douga suddenly appearing with icons.
I think this is probably the training that my mother made me participate in when I was a child without really understanding it, and the name of the temple, the name of the lodge, and the content of the training all match my memory.
I think I climbed up there in white after I was done with the water stains.
It wasn't until I got to Nagoya that I realized I couldn't go down the stairs normally.
If you chop it up, you can get off.
Walking half a step at a time with the right foot down first is OK.
This means that the right knee cannot support the weight with the knee bent. https://gyazo.com/ecdbed97f3463c287f78f12b4ec9403a
We met up with the fog clearing!
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It's the manhole that's the talk of the town!
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[Sekai Camera
I had passed it by thinking that a proper massage parlor had appeared again since it was in the site of a nearby massage parlor that had gone out of business, but after hearing about someone who had been there, I'm a little more interested, so I'll go there next time.
Massage is the exclusive business qualification of the national "anma massage shiatsu practitioner", so I was wondering if that was the case, since there are often cases of people practicing massage under the name "this is not massage", even though it is in fact a massage.
They're really going to stretch.
When I first heard the story, I thought it was Dr. Foot. https://gyazo.com/1dc0a16f4c2ba91f09c2defdcdd5a1ad
done!
It's nearby, so we decided to go look for it.
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On the lookout for suspicious people! LOL!
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I'm sleepy, so I'm going to bed.
Going to bed at 25:00
Some of them are going running tomorrow at 7:00.
I can't. I'm going to bed.
Check-out time is 12:00 p.m.
Tomorrow I have a bullet train leaving from Nagoya at 11:26 a.m.
Some risk...
Well, maybe he'll wake up at 9:00.
I'd love to wake up, but that's the problem with capsule hotels...
If I set an alarm on my Apple Watch, will it vibrate to wake me up, I don't know, I don't usually do that...
Day 4(9/28)
Go to bed at 25:00, wake up at 8:00
After all, birdsong and insectsong are the sounds of life made by natural creatures, so it's a rather refreshing feeling to think that the snoring of your neighbor is just the same.
I've heard people say that insects sound like noise to people in other countries, but I'm not sure that's actually true.
take a sauna
Souvenir mission, successful target acquisition
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All that's left to do is to go home, give them a souvenir, pick up the wallet that was left at the inn on the first day and mailed by registered mail to their home, and go for an eye exam, and the whole mission is complete.
Apparently, taking a nonreserved seat on an earlier train with a reserved seat express ticket is not allowed.
In principle, it is not possible. For example, this is stipulated in Article 172 "Validity of Express Tickets" of the East Japan Railway Passenger Service Regulations.
I have an ophthalmology appointment at 3:30 p.m.
I decided to wait because it was a reserved seat that would allow me to get home with plenty of time to spare.
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I decided to give this a try when the in-car sales came in.
successful
Tokyo is hot!
Sweat dripping while waiting for the train.
Organize offline diaries
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