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Kumano Kodo – A 1000-Year-Old Trail, part 2

Thursday morning, the first day of May, and Japan is in the midst of Golden Week—one of the country’s biggest holiday seasons when many Japanese take time off to travel. I expected crowds everywhere, but to my surprise, the opposite was true. The kind lady who hosted me

Kumano Kodo – A 1000-Year-Old Trail, part 1

For over a thousand years, people from all walks of life in ancient Japan—monks, merchants, samurai, even emperors—have walked the sacred trail of the Kumano Kodo. It’s not just a path through the mountains. It’s a path through time. The Kumano Kodo isn't a