Kumano Nachi Taisha Grand Shrine. Details of all the area’s bus routes can be found here. The pagoda at Nachisan Seiganto-ji Temple and Nachi Waterfall As with the Hongu area, Nachi is more than ...

Priests dressed in traditional attire beat wooden boards with willow branches in front of a waterfall in Nachikatsuura in ...

What it’s like to hike Japan’s sacred Kumano Kodo trail - This tranquil walking route that takes in waterfalls, temples and ...

Twice a year, the priests of Kumano Nachi Taisha Grand Shrine replace a sacred rope that hangs above a 133-meter-high waterfall. Just before the new year, five priests dressed in white climbed the ...

which erupts as the shrine gate opens, sending their hopes to the heavens above. Oto Matsuri fire festival On July 14, the famous Kumano Nachi Taisha Annual Festival, also known as the Nachi Fire ...

We did ensure, however, that we lingered at the three great shrines, Hongu Taisha, the centre point of the trail; Hayatama Taisha, slightly off the route near the coastal town of Shingu; and Nachi ...