The Sano Hashiramatsu Festival will be held on Friday, August 16, at Shinguko Ryokuchi Park in Sano, Shingu City!
This is a traditional fire festival held every year in prayers for a year of plentiful crop harvests free of pests.
During the festival, lit
The Wagasa Parasol Light-Up will be held at Kamikura-jinja Shrine from November 9-10!
The Kamikura-jinja Shrine is one of the sacred sites of the ancient Kumano pilgrimage. Built on the side of Mt. Gongenyama, it is the place for worship of the sacred G
October 15 %26 16 was Shingu's Kumano Hayatama Taisha Grand Shrine Annual Festival!
This festival is the most important event of the year for this shrine, and is registered as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan. The festival consists
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Koya-zaka Slope is part of the Nakahechi route of the Kumano Kodo, which runs through the middle of Japan's Kii Peninsula and connects the three "Kumano Sanzan" major Shinto shrines.
Most of the Nakahechi route runs through den
