Once you find the entrance, you really cannot get lost … it is well marked all along. The path itself is unusually wide for a forest foot path, and also almost over processed – like stone stairs, terraces in middle of the forest – likely traces of ancient renowned pilgrimage routes.
Here and there you can see traces of forestry work…Mind your steps…Traces of logging, but no signs of collecting logs of that size!Getting to our midway overnight…Scattered along the path, in corners, under rocks or remarkable trees… we get to see these little shrines, called Oji
We were really out of the crowded busy Japan!Shades, from yellow to dark green And most of the time, feeling of being a small ant just briefly passing by in this mighty forests….Even down to tinny details… no wonder they invented IkebanaAzaleas… we presumed!Paul! You never told us we had also some forest in Japan!! GF Les Cernes
On our second day of trekking, still majestic forest.
Is that a tree in a tree, or 3 trees, or what…
Carved stones Potential alternative are clearly marked as “Not Kumano”, 🙂And always the possibility of a surprising new plant to discover! (A bit like Yaburehasa ヤブレガサ!? Or Tachifūro)Reaching back the Pacific coast!And at our destination: Nachisan Seiganto-jiTaisha , another tick ✅!
