Hiking Mt. Kumotori Day #1

By hiking standards, we got up quite late at 8:00 am. The earliest bus from Seibu Chichibu Station was at 8:30 am. Typically we like to take the earliest bus possible which is usually at 6:00 am or so. It gives us more cushion on the backend in case something unexpected happens. We got to […]

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Hiking Mt. Kumotori Day #0

Our Hiking Mt. Kumotori trip started bright and early in the morning. The trip would be four days and three nights. We packed our bags the night before and were out the door by 5:30. We used the Seishun 18 ticket that we purchased the day before and took a 6:08 Joban Line train for […]

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Japan Hiking Kumano Kodo Nakahechi Route Day #3 Yunomine Onsen to Nara

I’ll be the first to acknowledge that this was a transition travel day and did not include any actual hiking. Due to time constraints we had to cut our journey short. Sometime in the future we would like to continue on the Nakahechi Route and visit Kumano Hayatama Taisha and Kumano Nachi Taisha. For our […]

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