Mhm.

Good morning everybody.

Good morning to you from Kumano.

Hi.

Okay so right now I'm in the Kumano area and I'm about to do the Kumano kodo.

Not really.

I lied.

I'm sorry, I'm not about to do the Kumano kodo.

We don't have time to Monaco to actually takes about 5 to 6 days to do.

Um But unfortunately I'm only here until three p.m. Today which is not that much time.

So instead we're gonna be taking a car and going to some specific spots and looking at the three main shrines of Kumano kodo.

There's actually a bunch of different routes that you can take for the Kumano kodo but no snow.

Oh it's snowing a little bit.

Oh uh right now I'm standing at the entrance of the Kumano kodo which is tacky G.

Or G.

So yeah, it completely starts from this point.

The route we're taking today is the main route or the middle route.

But 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 keith and obesity and they'll take you directly here.

There's like an information place to get some snacks and to get some sticks you get everything that you need and then you can get started also a big shout out to Tampa Bay City Kumano Tourism Bureau.

Thank you so much for bringing me out here sponsoring this video and uh let me check out the Kumano 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.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Yeah.

All right.

We just got to have first stop.

We're going to go pick up some bentos.

So if you're doing the criminal code a it's good to have a bento to take with you.

But you can't just go and pick up a bento from anywhere.

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 preordered al bentos.

We're going to pick them up.

I think one of the main things with the Kumano kodo is doing a lot of planning beforehand.

It's not 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.

Hi.

Oh yeah we got the bentos and we got a friend to take with us.

Can you come with us?

I feel like the trail also this is the first time she showed in this video.

So we've come here to pick up the bentos.

Usually the bentos would be delivered to the hotel of the best place that you're staying at.

As long as you ordered them wow talent.

We got our bentos.

Very nice.

This called bento.

Yeah.

Okay.

We have stopped in Sang India which also exists in Tokyo but it's completely different.

The next step is hunger Tisha.

Let's get three grand shrines that were gonna be visiting.

That's so cute.

I got some salmon, some egg.

Yeah.

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 in Kumano yesterday where I got to make some chopsticks.

She already made one chopstick.

I managed to make two that are slightly uneven.

Mm hmm mm good season.

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.

The main themes of like the Kumano kodo rebirth and purification.

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 go through the journey that you need to go through it and it would be pretty amazing.

You can just focus on yourself which is so real, 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.

Yeah I'm gonna keep eating and then we're gonna head to the next place.

Yeah.

Mhm.

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 because the trail originally goes through here.

So let's go.

Mhm Wearing masks.

There's such fancy masks to, oh my gosh, they got the common on bird.

Okay.

We made it to hunger shrine.

This place is really interesting.

There's actually four main gods shown here.

The other texture that we're going to visit represent some of these gods, all of the gods that you can visit on the criminal code or are actually here as well.

If you can't do the full common avocado, 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 coming of and that's his sister over in the fire one over there And then his parents are here.

Yeah, very helpful for the people.

I think we got the special commission.

Yeah.

Normally you can't film in here by the way.

She only gave me 55 years.

Thank you.

Get inside.

Mhm.

Yes, there's this crow symbol everywhere.

A crow with three legs and its symbol of this area and it's Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, I got it originally showed the emperor to Kyoto.

So it's a symbol of the Japanese soccer team.

Yeah.

Victory.

Okay.

We were just walking chatting and then we turn around the corner and blonde wow, I can't even see how absolutely massive it is.

It's so big.

What's this one called?

Oh, you're not gonna, you're not hot up.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh, it's so big.

How many she stories do you think told?

This is 2 20 Shoe Trees.

That's just so crazy.

Uh huh This triangle is about twice the size of the Kashima shrine on Miyajima, which is very famous.

Probably not, but this is huge.

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.

No one before the bag money come to see that.

I was about to drop some sick Kumano beats but I'll hold back, 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 like traffic safety we are at high atomic tisha.

There's some sound going on in the background because they're actually building a big fire pit for a festival and maturity and so they're building this big fire pit so you can throw your old charms, your old Mamani into the fire so you can get new ones, keep it fresh.

You come to Japan and you go to some 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, they're the snout of, you know, she, she, and it's supposed to be like a protective kind of thing cause 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 bore.

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 took my wish and I was like, all right.

And then I like listed my interest in my head and my name and it felt so weird.

Yeah, 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 length ways if you can tell it makes it really, really strong and hard to uh tear.

And so it's kind of a symbol of an unbreakable bond of strength.

And so yeah, you can keep it and you can put it in your wallet if you want to have an unbreakable bond to your money or you know, I guess to give it to a loved one or family.

Yeah.

Nice.

So hot.

Maybe you guys can see how hard this thing is.

Allison.

It's like solid again.

I, yeah, yeah.

Mm.

Okay.

We're starting our client, We actually get to hike.

We finally, we're going to claim diamonds.

Aka surely you're wearing a very beautiful hat.

It's a traditional hat built by a guy.

He was like 100 years old.

It's going to be disappeared.

The culture that this culture will be disappeared after he passes away.

No one else can make them so sad.

But this is my image of a commander for the working.

Yeah.

Always this heart is enough hospice and everywhere it's good to be expanding where it you made me look a bending machine.

Thanks Japan way.

Also if you guys do come in avocado, a lot of it is english friendly.

There's a lot of foreign tourists that will come and do the criminal code.

Oh, 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.

Mm Yeah, 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 got a huge variety I think have been.

Yeah the trees have seen everything increase.

Send trees easy.

That's, it was nice then three.

Okay we're almost at the top.

So actually diamonds aka is the last part of the naka naka Hetchy the main route that people take.

So to end like the full on hike after four or five days hiking, you finished with this hill.

This slope, we've made it to the top a few more steps.

Here we go and we are officially done now we can go to come on up nasty.

Yeah the last, The last actually I lied there's another 400 steps.

Okay then you can get to coming on next.

Oh wow, icicles, That's how cold it is.

So if you walk you're gonna get this amazing view coming up by the 20 gauge and then I said uh yeah look at that.

So we're here at the final shrine and access to criminal Natasha.

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 old camp, a tree that I want to go and have a look at and yeah we'll just explore there 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 and Emma, so this Emma has yet to Gara so on it, very classic with three ft and I'm gonna be filling it out with some of my wishes and I'm gonna be going into this super old camper tree which is 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 wishes, please let the world recover and be okay.

Okay, here we go.

I'm gonna do it.

Here we go.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, wow, it's so quiet in here.