Kumano Kodo 2023

Chronological record of the day, still being edited

• YAMAP, they give you badges like this?

planning stage - Kumano Kodo → Nagoya Institute of Technology 2023-09-24~28

Day0(9/24)

- [[Distribution of Grant-in-Aid for Basic Research]]

• 16:00 Meet at HND

• HND

  • ↓✈️ 1.25h

• SHM

  • ↓🚕 30min

• Prince Takijiri

Members swimming in the sea just after sunset

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Yanico

Day 1(9/25)

• 8:00 Takijiri Oji.
  • ↓🥾9h
• 17:00 Chikanro.
  • Stay at 🏨 [SEN.REATEAT CHIKATSUYU https://www.google.com/travel/hotels/s/2gQzFDFNczspBYrBA

5:00

Going to bed at 9:00 p.m. I was supposed to wake up at 6:00 but woke up at 5:00. 8 hours!

Everyone is still sleeping… I should be the one who should be sleeping the most, since I am the least fit.

Through our conversation on the first day, I knew I had to get more physical. For example, if I am invited to go bolting on a natural rock, I would say, “Sounds fun! I’m not sure if I can do it,” I’ll say, “This looks fun! I can’t say, “I’m in! I can’t say “I’m in!

Now, I’m going to try to sleep again. 5:30

Hmmm, no, the spirit can’t sleep, so let’s just lay the body down and let it rest.

6:00

Departure

• [Dried plums

8:10 Starting point

8:36 Prince of Sleeplessness

around Takahara Kumano Shrine

My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think it was around this point that I got a call from the inn on the first day saying, “Mr. Nishio’s wallet is forgotten.

• Idea of taking a cab back to pick it up.
• Proposal to have it mailed to you.
  • Mailing is once refused because “there is cash in the mail”.
    • You may destroy the cash!”
  • I was able to have my wallet sent home by registered cashier’s check.
    • Result: Send wallet by registered mail and return postage with a fixed amount money order. Recommended to buy Anker Eufy, will buy.

12:25 Jujo Oji

Koban Jizo

Legend of the Three Bodies of the Moon

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Near Chikaruro

16:49 Arrival!

SEN.REATEAT CHIKATSUYU

Work to make sure Fire pit It’s done. Roast marshmallows

Record what you drink and what you eat Pocari Sweat 500ml 125kcal Salt 0.6 VAAM x 3 0kcal Salt 0.5 x 3 Salty lychee 170 kcal Salt 0.55 Happy Turn Calories 269kca Salt 1.44 Salt Charge Unknown (6 or more, I lost track because I put the trash in my bag)

• As 10 pieces, 110 kcal, 1.2g salt Kaki no tane x 3

Pain in right knee and [right hip joint

• I googled it, and it seems it’s a common case of mountain climbing pain.
• Knee pain is the biggest physical problem for climbers. Its cause can be improved by reducing the load on the quadriceps muscles! - Yama to Keiya Online
• Hip pain while climbing can be solved with a very simple ‘while training’! | YAMA HACK Yamaha

I want to apply a poultice (feitas).

• My neck and shoulders are stiff too, but I might get photosensitivity, so I’ll pass.
• I’m taking a bath to warm up.

Day 2(9/26)

• 8:30 Departure from KONDORO
  • ↓🥾5h
• 13:30 Michiyugawa Bridge (Escape from Kumano Kodo)
  • ↓14:10 ~1h Bus
• ⛩️ Kumano Hongu Taisha
• Meet up with other members at 17~18 pm
• ♨️ stay at Yumine Onsen

Go to bed at 9:00 p.m., get up at 6:00 a.m.

Departure at 8:30

• I like the yatagarasu logo.

9:50 Prince Tsugakura

• one-sided cedar in Nonaka, Prince Tsugizakura: Kumano 99 Oji: Tourist Attractions in Kumano

Toganoki Teahouse, Prince of Tsugakura

Escape from Kumano Kodo

• I want to revisit the Kumano Kodo.
• Comments on the usefulness of the stock
• Arriving for two consecutive days of climbing.
• I want to read Scrapbox offline.

A lot of foreigners got off the bus at Kawayu Onsen, what’s there to see?

Is it written “Oosaihara-mae” and called “Oyunohara-mae”?

Arrive safely at Kumano Hongu by bus. It looks like they built an information center and a museum since it was registered as a World Heritage site. However, it was like a greenhouse because there was no air conditioning in spite of the glass walls.

- holding that Shinto gods are manifestations of buddhas!

• I didn’t connect Yamabushi and Shugendou with Kumano Kodo in my brain.
  • You know, it says Chubenji, a difficult road for ascetic practices.

• Tokishu, Ippen Shonin.

• Dropout Michiyugawa, a village that used to be prosperous but seems to have been destroyed.

• Chronology, I should have taken a closer shot.
  • 
    • Hmmm, lack of resolution on the part of the original image.
    • We’ll find out later if it’s online.

An explanatory video was shown at the information center.

• The summary of the historical video I watched was: “Shugendou was born when Esoteric Buddhism and Taoism joined mountain worship, a religion that says you can attain enlightenment like Buddha if you practice in the mountains. The Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine enshrines Amida Nyorai, who merged with Buddha, and was regarded as the Paradise.
• Miscellaneous Notes
  • 9th century Shingon esoteric Buddhism.
  • [Shugendo was established when esoteric Buddhism and Taoism were introduced into mountain worship.
  • As Buddhism grows manifestation theory (holding that Shinto gods are manifestations of buddhas).
    • Kumano’s value went up.
  • Late Heian period, Latter Dharma philosophy, desire to be reborn in the Pure Land of Amida Buddha.
  • Mountain forest practitioners since the 8th century
    • Kumano Sanja
    • Kumano Head Office was treated as [Paradise
  • The World Heritage site designates three shrines and two temples as sacred sites Kumano Sanzan.
    • They descended as three moons.
      • Day1’s Legend of the Three Bodies of the Moon.
  • Kumano Hayatama Shrine
    • At least the 12th century?
  • Tree planted by Taira Shigemori
  • road repair

To the inn

• No cabs available, and even if they were called, it would take an hour to get a cab.
  • The first thing I did was to search for the phone number of the cab company that was the top suggestion, and the number that came up was “The number you have dialed is no longer in use.
  • I arrived early and was at the information center, so it would have been best for me to ask the staff about later transportation options, but I didn’t realize it.
  • Members tactfully asked to be picked up and dropped off at the inn.

jar baths

• Head to [hot spring bathtub heated from below

Tsubo-yu was registered as a World Heritage site as a Kumano pilgrimage site. This is a World Heritage-listed hot spring where you can bathe.

• Yunomine Onsen Public Bathhouse/ Tsuboyu - Kumano Hongu Tourist Association

They tell me all the slots are already filled and I have no choice but to leave.

Day 3(9/27)

• 11:00 Arrival at Shingu

• 12:45 Departure from Shingu Station

  • ↓🚆Express Nanki No. 6

• 16:10 Arrival in Nagoya

• 18:30-20:30 [/omoikane/27th Community Engineering Workshop “Let AI write a short science fiction story and think about the future! ~ChatGPT x SF Prototyping”](https://scrapbox.io/omoikane/27th Community Engineering Workshop “Let AI write a short science fiction story and think about the future! ~ChatGPT x SF Prototyping”)]

• Apa Hotel

  • Canceled.

Go to bed at 9:00 p.m., get up at 6:00 a.m.

• Try again [hot spring bathtub heated from below

• Bathing in the World Heritage Site, achievements unlocked!
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• Yunomine Onsen is the oldest hot spring in Japan

• The story of the mysterious color of the Kumano River

• The color of the water is not green like ordinary rivers, but blue and unique. The water has a light blue color due to the mixture of lime in the water. --- Kumano River - Wikipedia

The round thing attached to the robe of a mountain priest is called a Brahma-Deva. - [Buddhist service for the anniversary of the death of Shotoku Taishi (orig. the 22nd day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar)

When I went through the tunnel, I found myself in Lawson.

Tricky Tickets

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• A single ticket from Shingu to Tokyo metropolitan area will generate a transfer discount of 1,500 yen by setting the transfer judgment to True for the express ticket to Nagoya on the 27th and the Shinkansen express ticket to Shinagawa on the 28th, which are two different days.
  • Overnight stay in Nagoya is treated as a “temporary stopover”.
• When I heard about the ticketing process, I didn’t understand it, but when I saw the real thing, I understood that this is the kind of puzzle-like thing they wanted to do.
  • The $1500 discount is not the goal.
• Bottom line, I couldn’t get it on the online reservation site, and when I came to the Shingu station counter, the local staff couldn’t get it, and I had to wait for 20 people or something at a ticket machine that had a video call connection to some center.

choo-choo train Heh, I see. No, this is not the “Dove Poppo” I know. - non-standard kana, just barely readable

• I see. So they were unloading Yoshino cedars at the Kumano River.

Xufu Park I was curious about what the mysterious Chinatown-like thing that I could see from the station was, so I went there and found it was the tomb of Xu Fu.

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  • Wow, I didn’t know that.

• Interesting Monuments

• Xu Fu properly carried out the idea of Confucius.

  • Confucius said, “In a world where reason is not practiced, let us go abroad on a raft.

  • During the Warring States Period in China, a man named Lu Zhonglian said, “If the Qin Dynasty ever came to power, I would immediately throw myself into the East Sea to die. I cannot become a citizen of the Qin Dynasty by any means. The people were moved by Lu Zhonglian’s spirit and thought his words were very clever. However, he only said these words, but did not act on them. Compared to Xu Fu, who fled far away from the Qin Dynasty to the pure world, Lu Zhonglian was a world away from the Qin Dynasty.

  • I guess there will always be those who say only small talk to be accepted by the masses and don’t do it when the time comes.
  • Xu Fu practiced “If you are dissatisfied with the regime, move on.”
• Overall view of the monument
  • 
    • 
      • The fifth year of Tempo is 1834 in the Western calendar.

• Interesting to have a sense of the negotiation pitfalls.

• Bus x 3
• They’re ready to bring in tour tourists from the continent.

Heading for Nagoya on the Nanki Limited Express

• Nano museum, nice.
  • 
  • You can play with it by shooting at a wide angle of the aori lol.

• Next is “Tsu”!
• This may be my first visit!

It’s hard to pee standing up at a urinal on a train that sways from side to side.

• I succeeded successfully, but I’m wondering if there are people who fail and spread it around!

They say the next stop is Tsu, but they stop at a mysterious station.

• Because of a train mishap, I see.

To the Yamabushi, if you want to be one:

• It was too funny that as a punchline to the story about how you can become a Yamabushi if you do the training once a year for 3 years, once you become a Yamabushi, you can enter a special site and learn remotely.
  • This site is quite funny, with links to Nico Nico Douga suddenly appearing with icons.

I think this is probably the training that my mother made me participate in when I was a child without really understanding it, and the name of the temple, the name of the lodge, and the content of the training all match my memory.

• Omine, sacred place for mountain priests, mountain of asceticism, guide to climbing Mt. Omine
  • I think I climbed up there in white after I was done with the water stains.
  • Participating in Taimeikyo (sect of Shinto) for 3 years starting next year is not a bad option.

It wasn’t until I got to Nagoya that I realized I couldn’t go down the stairs normally.

• If you chop it up, you can get off.

• Walking half a step at a time with the right foot down first is OK.

• This means that the right knee cannot support the weight with the knee bent.

• Suica in iPhone

• We met up with the fog clearing!

• It’s the manhole that’s the talk of the town!

• [Sekai Camera
  • Mold thinking that had a similar thing in the past

Dr. Stretch.

• I had passed it by thinking that a proper massage parlor had appeared again since it was in the site of a nearby massage parlor that had gone out of business, but after hearing about someone who had been there, I’m a little more interested, so I’ll go there next time.
• Massage is the exclusive business qualification of the national “anma massage shiatsu practitioner”, so I was wondering if that was the case, since there are often cases of people practicing massage under the name “this is not massage”, even though it is in fact a massage.
• They’re really going to stretch.
• When I first heard the story, I thought it was Dr. Foot.

Community Engineering Workshop

• 
• done!

Geocaching.

• It’s nearby, so we decided to go look for it.
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• On the lookout for suspicious people! LOL!

Wellbe prosperity

I’m sleepy, so I’m going to bed.

• Going to bed at 25:00

• Some of them are going running tomorrow at 7:00.

  • I can’t. I’m going to bed.

• Check-out time is 12:00 p.m.

  • Tomorrow I have a bullet train leaving from Nagoya at 11:26 a.m.
  • Some risk…
  • Well, maybe he’ll wake up at 9:00.
  • I’d love to wake up, but that’s the problem with capsule hotels…
    • If I set an alarm on my Apple Watch, will it vibrate to wake me up, I don’t know, I don’t usually do that…

• Offline and online diaries

Day 4(9/28)

Go to bed at 25:00, wake up at 8:00

• Natural wake-up alarm (neighbor snoring) @ wellbe prosperity.
• After all, birdsong and insectsong are the sounds of life made by natural creatures, so it’s a rather refreshing feeling to think that the snoring of your neighbor is just the same.
• I’ve heard people say that insects sound like noise to people in other countries, but I’m not sure that’s actually true.

take a sauna - ice sauna Oh, man.

Souvenir mission, successful target acquisition

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• All that’s left to do is to go home, give them a souvenir, pick up the wallet that was left at the inn on the first day and mailed by registered mail to their home, and go for an eye exam, and the whole mission is complete.

Apparently, taking a nonreserved seat on an earlier train with a reserved seat express ticket is not allowed.

• https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/2203/24/news107.html

• In principle, it is not possible. For example, this is stipulated in Article 172 “Validity of Express Tickets” of the East Japan Railway Passenger Service Regulations.

• I have an ophthalmology appointment at 3:30 p.m.
  • I decided to wait because it was a reserved seat that would allow me to get home with plenty of time to spare.

• I decided to give this a try when the in-car sales came in.
• successful

Tokyo is hot!

• Sweat dripping while waiting for the train.

• Ophthalmology Examination 2023-09-28

Organize offline diaries - Right knee pain due to mountain climbing - Choosing a tool to write down your thoughts - Are you a customer or a product? - Processing information from events - Koban Jizo

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