「Let's travel in Japan!-How to ENJOY OSAKA-」 www.howto-osaka.com ■ KＯＹＡＳＡＮ（The religious city） It is generic name of the mountains about approximately 1,000m above sea level in Koya-cho, Ito-gun, Wakayama. It is along with KOYASAN Shingonshu, Hieizan which there was Kobo Daishi Kukai (819 years) as place of ascetic practices from the time for Konin ten years of the Heian era in sacred place in Japanese Buddhism. We form religious city around basic dojo studio called "Danjogaran" now. Koyasan Choishimichi and six buildings of Yamauchi were registered with world's cultural heritage of the UNESCO as "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range" with Kumano, Yoshino, Omine (2004) on July 7 in 2004. ■KＵＭＡＮＯＫＯＤＯ Kumanokodo is generic name of old highway binding ground of Kumano equal to the southern part of Kii peninsula and Ise and Osaka, Wakayama, Koya and Yoshino together. Paths of small side that leaves from large paths of side (Ohechi), KOYASAN leaving for Nachi, Shingu along the shoreline from middle side way (Nakahechi), Tanabe toward Hongu, Kumano for Hongu, Kumano (Kohechi) are registered with a world heritage as "Kumano Pilgrimage Routes" by Tanabe. "Kumano Hongu Taisha," "Kumano Hayatama Taisha" calls three companies of "Kumano Nachi Taisha" "Kumano Sanzan". Kumano Sanzan is located in the southeastern part of Wakayama at the intervals of distance of 20-40km each, and it is grown among "Kumanokodo (Kumano Pilgrimage Routes) each other by side way".

• published: 09 Mar 2014
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