Visiting Japan's Tallest Torii Gate! KUMANO KODO

[Music] good morning everybody good morning to you from kumano ah so cool so right now i'm in the kumono area and i'm about to do the kuma no kodo not really i lied i'm sorry i'm not about to do the kumu no kodo uh we don't have time kumanokota actually takes about five to six days to do um but unfortunately i'm only here until 3 p.m today which is not that much time so uh instead we're going to be taking a car and going to some specific spots and looking at the three main shrines of the kuma no kodo there's actually a bunch of different routes that you can take for the kumano kodo but uh oh snow oh it's snowing a little bit oh right now i'm standing at the entrance of the kumanoko which is takijiri oji so yeah it completely starts from this point the route we're taking today is the main route or the middle route but uh there's a bunch of different ones that you can take the way that you can get here is you can take a bus from kitanabe city and they'll take you directly here there's like an information place to get some snacks and to get some sticks you know get everything that you need and then you can get started also a big shout out to tanabe city kumano tourism bureau thank you so much for bringing me out here sponsoring this video and uh let me check out the kumuno kodo but yeah we gotta go let's get started go see some shines get a bento do some hiking all that good stuff let's go all right we just got to our first stop where we're going to go pick up some bentos so if you're doing the kuma nokoda it's good to have a bento to take with you but uh you can't just go and pick up a bento from anywhere uh the best thing to do is to talk to your guest house or the place that you're staying and organize the bento there and they'll order it for you that's what we've done we've pre-ordered our bentos we're gonna pick them up i think one of the main things with the kumuno kodo is doing a lot of planning beforehand it's not more something that you can really just turn up and do you need to do a lot of planning if you want some more help planning you can go to the link in the description down below there's a lot of help with english if you want to plan your trip oh meow we got the bentos and we got a friend to take with us can you come with us like the trail also this is the first time she sees shioni in this video so we've come here to pick up the bentos uh usually uh the bentos would be delivered to the hotel or the guest place that you're staying at as long as you order them wow talent look at our bentos yay very nice this is called kodobento hmm okay we have stopped in sangen jaya which also exists in tokyo but it's completely different so our next stop is hong taisha let's go three grand shrines that we're gonna be visiting that's so cute i got some salmon some egg yucky super cute so we have a bunch of different kinds of rice balls and chopsticks if you guys haven't seen i did another video uh in kumano yesterday where i got to make some chopsticks she already made one chopstick i managed to make two that are slightly uneven good seasoning very nice i feel like if i had just walked a long way this would hit the spot so amazingly you know i feel like food always tastes better after you've done a lot of exercise true the main themes of like the kumanokoto like rebirth and purification i i don't know if i've ever have i been on a spiritual journey before i'm trying to think it could be really cool to just be alone and just gun it out and do your best and and go through the journey that you need to go through i think that would be pretty amazing you can just focus on yourself which is so rare especially like your job he always needs to connect with the world it's a great opportunity to have this as our job but at the same time we kind of need this for our personal experience okay i'm gonna keep eating and then we're gonna head to the next place [Music] [Music] okay so you would think that the trail comes down here and then comes all the way through the gate but actually the trail originally that that's just for cars the trail originally goes through here so let's go [Music] [Music] they're wearing masks they're such fancy masks too oh my gosh they got the kumono bird okay we made it to hungary shrine this place is really interesting there's actually four main gods uh shown here the other taisha that we're going to visit uh represents some of these gods all of the gods that you can visit on the kumuno kodo are actually here as well if you can't do the full komonakoda but you still want to go and pay your respect to the gods you can come here and you can see all of them this is the the kami of and that's his sister over under the far one over there and then his parents are here yeah it's very i don't know helpful for the people i think we got a special plummy to film this year yeah yeah normally you can't film in here by the way she only gave me 55 yen thank you [Applause] there's this crow symbol everywhere a crow with three legs uh and a symbol of this area of kumano and uh it's yatagarasu right it originally showed the emperor to kyoto also it's a symbol of the the japanese soccer team yeah victory okay we were just walking chatting and then we turned around the corner and oh i can't even see how absolutely massive it is it's so big what's this one called oh you know oh you know oh my gosh it's so big how many shirts do you think tall this is two empty shooties [Laughter] [Applause] that's just so crazy this triangle is about twice the size of the itsukushima shrine and miyajima which is very famous you probably know it but this is huge it's absolutely massive also it's surrounded by a lot of cherry blossom trees and uh rice fields so in other seasons it's gonna look so so beautiful as well but even with them all bear it's so cool i feel like this angle is like i'm in a rap video i'm the one before the back money coming see the flow i was about to drop some stick kumano beats but i'll hold back [Music] hold on okay at this shrine you can have your car blessed you can park your car here and give a donation and the priest will bless your car i guess for uh for like traffic safety we are at kubernetes there's some sound going on in the background that's because they're actually building a big fire pit for a festival a matsuri and so they're building this big fire pit so you can throw your old like charms your old mamodi uh into the fire so you can get new ones keep it fresh you come to japan and you go to some uh shrines you're probably gonna see love hearts everywhere and i used to think oh that means it's a love shrine that's so cute like oh i'll get my love fortune here that's not what it means they're not actually love hearts they're uh they're the snout of inoshishi and it's supposed to be like a protective kind of thing because they're very protective animals so if you see a heart and a shrine it's not a heart it's a snout for a boar can you see it it's very far away sorry emma can you zoom in i've got the wrong lens on thank you emma okay so i just found out before that you should tell the coming summer your address so they can find you when you wish for like for your wish and so i literally i did my wish and then i was like all right and then i like listed my address in my head and my name and it felt so weird they can find me so at this shrine they also have an 800 year old nagi tree and what's special about the nagi tree is actually the leaves so the leaves the veins go uh lengthways if you can tell makes it really really strong and hard to uh to tear and so it's kind of a symbol of an unbreakable bond of strength and so yeah you can keep it and uh you can put it in your wallet if you want to have an unbreakable bond to your money or you know i guess give it to a loved one or family yeah it sounds nice yeah so hot maybe you guys can see how hot this thing is yeah this one's like solid [Music] okay we're starting our climb we actually get to hike shorty it's finally finally we're going to climb daimon zaka ah sure you're wearing a very beautiful hat it's a traditional hat built by a guy who's like 100 years old it's going to be disappear the culture that this culture will be disappeared yeah after he passes away no one else can make them so sad but this is the my image of the commando photo walking yeah always this heart is in the posters and everywhere this one it's good to be expanding when it's humid i like a vending machine thanks japan oh wait oh also if you guys do come in okada a lot of it is english friendly there's a lot of foreign tourists that will come and do the kumuno kodo each year do not worry there will be support if you don't fully speak japanese and also you can hire a guide if you want as well who can help you out the whole time [Music] wife and husband see the trees yeah wow there's bamboo what the heck wow yeah there's a massive variety of trees in here usually yeah in forest here it's just soggy trees but this area because there's been no deforestation it's uh it's got a huge variety yeah the trees have seen everything pink trees send trees [Music] dreams okay we're almost at the top so actually uh daimon zaka is uh the last part of the the naka nakahi the the main route that people take so to end like the full-on hike after four or five days hiking you finish with this this hill this slope we've made it to the top a few more steps here we go [Music] actually i lied there's another four hundred steps [Music] then you can get to a cumulonita [Music] oh wow icicles that's how cold it is so if you walk you're going to get this amazing view coming up by the tidy gate and then look at that so we're here at the final shrine and that's taisha coming on uh it's beautiful it's super vibrant and this originally used to be near the falls but they relocated it to up here and you can see the falls is such a beautiful view of them there's a uh a old uh camper tree that i want to go and have a look at yeah and yeah we'll just explore the air a little bit and then we're gonna go to see the falls all right now that we're at the top i am gonna be filling out an emma so this emma has yatagarasu on it very classic with the three feet and i'm gonna be filling it out with some of my my wishes and i'm gonna be going into this super old camper tree which is uh sacred and i'm going to be reborn which is kind of the theme of the kumano kodo i need to decide what to write i have so many wishes like i just want everything to be okay please let the world be okay how's that okay so my wish is please let the world recover and be okay okay here we go i'm gonna do it here we go oh my gosh wow wow wow it's so quiet in here it's so peaceful okay ready to go out here we go wow all right we don't have too much time we got to go catch our flight back to tokyo but we're going to go see the falls yep we're going fast as fast as we can without tripping over wow we arrived here it is so these falls are the highest single drop falls in japan i think they're 133 meters there are taller fours but they're all like you know there's steps but this is just like a four one one look at that [Music] hello everybody it is editing emma unfortunately we have a little bit of corrupt footage on our hands so it's just going to be the sound of my voice for a little bit but uh yeah i wanted to say i had a great time hiking even just a little bit of the kumano kodo and i wanted to ask if you guys have hiked it before because i really want to know what your experience is like because i'm actually interested in doing it myself it looked amazing it was so much fun and being able to finish in that area next to the falls just looked so so good but if you guys are coming to japan and you want to plan a trip to the kumanoko definitely check out the link in the description they can help you so much and organize everything with you in english and i also want to thank so much the sponsor of this video tanabe city kumono tourism bureau thank you so much for sponsoring me and bringing me out i had a really really great time and thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up leave a comment down below or hit subscribe if you want to see more videos like this or not like this but thank you so much for watching i'll see you in the next video john [Music] you

Channel: Tokidoki Traveller

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Length: 16min 58sec (1018 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 28 2021