Location
Temple 1 of the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage — pagoda overlooking Nachi Falls in the Kumano mountains.
A rare surviving shrine-temple complex; also a key node of the UNESCO Kumano Kodō sacred landscape.
Pilgrimage circuits that include this place.
Pure Land
Japan’s oldest major Buddhist circuit — 33 temples of Kannon across Kansai, older than the Shikoku henro.
East Asia
Interfaith
UNESCO network of mountain trails to the three Kumano grand shrines — Japan’s great syncretic pilgrimage of forest and waterfall.
East Asia
Pure Land
The full national Kannon pilgrimage — Saigoku 33 + Bandō 33 + Chichibu 34, traditionally completed as one lifelong vow.
East Asia
