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Depends very much on the route you choose and the type of accommodation. There are two main Japanese pilgrimage routes which foreigners walk: the Shikoku 88 temple circuit (Buddhist) and the Kumano Kodo (mainly Shinto shrines). Neither have the sort of albergue network that you may be used to from walking in Spain. On the Kumano Kodo routes accommodation is mostly in small and quite expensive minshuku - traditional Japanese style. The short supply means that they are often fully booked weeks or even months in advance. The Shikoku circuit is much longer and there is a very wide variety of accommodation for pilgrims: free rooms in some temples, hostels, minshuku, business hotels or very basic covered shelters for those who carry mats and sleeping bags and are willing to sleep rough. Day-to-day costs for food and so on are not necessarily very expensive and can compare quite well with most of Europe at the budget end of the market. Cheaper than my own home country - UK - for example.Thank you for the link, I would like to walk in Japan and i understand they also have caminos too. I wonder if it is very expansive to walk in Japan caminos?
As far as I know there is no official website for the Shikoku pilgrimage. Lots of information available online from other sources though. This website gives a useful introduction: https://www.jpilgrim.com/ . For up to date information there is an active Facebook group with both Japanese and foreign members - some of them Shikoku residents: https://www.facebook.com/groups/30817087712/Thank you for your reply, I will try to locate their web site for more details.
Great ! Thank you!As far as I know there is no official website for the Shikoku pilgrimage. Lots of information available online from other sources though. This website gives a useful introduction: https://www.jpilgrim.com/ . For up to date information there is an active Facebook group with both Japanese and foreign members - some of them Shikoku residents: https://www.facebook.com/groups/30817087712/
There is a website for the Kumano Kodo which gives lots of practical information and links to the Tanabe tourist office who organise most of the accommodation and other services: http://www.tb-kumano.jp/en/kumano-kodo/ There is also an English-language Facebook group for the Kumano Kodo: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kumanokodoplanning/
Perhaps Auntie Beeb is listening to you - The thumbnail image on your link shows Nachi Taisha but the headline graphic on the BBC site is now a Jizo statue with a red bib, which may well be on Koya san, although similar stone figures are to be found all over Japan:Slightly confusingly the headline photograph is actually from one of the Kumano Kodo shrines about 100km away.
I think so. I found an email address for the website's photo editor and pointed out that their headline image was not in Koyasan. The photo was changed fairly soon after I sent the email. That Jizo might well be in Koyasan. There are quite a few in Okunoin and the bridge in the background is also of a very familiar style. I grew very fond of the Jizos I met on Shikoku and the Kumano Kodo. There is one whose special interest is in curing back pain. I made sure to leave him an offeringPerhaps Auntie Beeb is listening to you
I walked the entire 88 Temples route in April & May 2017. The weather was cool to begin with which delayed the cherry blossoms but quickly warmed up. Shikoku is sub-tropical so you can expect some humid conditions. I only had a few rainy days & walking in spring avoids typhoon season.My husband and I plan on trekking the 88 Temples in April and May of 2020. What was your weather like? and did you have a problem with the end of April, "Golden Week" festival, finding accommodations? Were accommodations hard to come by?
Thanks,
Juju
I deliberately timed my visit to avoid Golden Week and arrived a few days later. No particular problems in finding accommodation in mid-May this year. The weather was mostly excellent for walking - a couple of rainy days but mostly dry and with comfortable day time walking temperatures without the excessive heat and humidity of the summer. I arrived in Osaka on 16 May and flew out from Tokyo on 5 June.Bradypus, I see you went to Japan in May. My husband and I plan on trekking the 88 Temples in April and May of 2020. What was your weather like? and did you have a problem with the end of April, "Golden Week" festival, finding accommodations? Were accommodations hard to come by?
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