Kumano Kodō — Japan's Pilgrimage Road Over the Mountains to Three Shrines

You walk a Japanese pilgrimage road people have crossed the mountains to travel for more than a thousand years. Up a banner-lined cedar path to the heart where the pilgrimage first arrives, down the river to the sanctuary where it meets the sea, and at last to a waterfall honored as a god — you pass, one by one, three places that join the three grand shrines of Kumano.