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  • Wisteria at the Koyasu Jizoji Temple
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Pref. Hashimotoshi Shoubutani 94
    This site, famous for its Wisteria, is located just a 15 minute drive from the JR Hashimoto Station. The Koyasu Jizoji Temple has been known since the Kishu Tokugawa family times as the temple for supplication for safe baby delivery. Selected as the 24th temple in the 25 Sacred Sites of Kansai Floral Temples (temples famous for beautiful flowers in the Kansai area). This temple is surrounded by 25 wisteria vines of 8 differing varieties including the kyushaku-fuji wisteria, kuchibeni-fuji wisteria, shironoda-fuji wisteria, and akanaga-fuji wisteria. During peak season, one can stroll through the blooms that encircle the precincts. Cherry and camellia trees are also planted here at the Koyasu Jizoji Temple, so flowers can be enjoyed during all seasons.
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  • Koyasan Onsen Fukkuchi-in
    Accommodations / Hot Spring
    Wakayama Ito-gun Koyacho Koyasan 657
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  • Fudozaka Guchi Nyonindo Hall
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Ito-gun Koyacho Koyasan 709
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  • Kadohama Gomatofu Sohonpo, Main Store
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    5.0
    16 Reviews
    Shopping
    Wakayama Ito-gun Koyacho Koyasan 262

    こちら『角濱ごま豆腐』のごま豆腐は、弘法大師様のお膳に上がる事や、お寺などに納められている事で有名です。『製造所売店』と『飲食部』とが有ります。飲食部でも販売はされておりますが、知らなかった事から、この製造所のお店で買ってきました。工場はすぐ分かりますが、売店の入り口が分からなく、工場をほんの少し通り過ぎたところにありました。明るいとてもきれいなお店です。

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  • KOYASAN OKUNO-IN CEMETERY NIGHT TOUR
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Wakayama Ito-gun Koyacho Koyasan 497
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  • Saigyodo Hall and Grave of Saigyo's Wife and Daughter
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho Shimoamano
    Saigyodo Halls are temporary residences used by the late-Heian period Buddhist monk Saigyo to shelter himself from the weather. There are several located across Japan. The Saigyodo Hall located on the side of Prefectural Route 109 in Amano, Wakayama Prefecture is traditionally believed to have been the place where Saigyo lived with his wife and daughter. The current building is a reproduction built in 1986. It is said that Saigyo established a hermitage here sometime around 1142 with his family, who lived the rest of their lives here. Their grave is located next to the hall. It is said that monks and worshipers visiting Mt. Koya have long visited the grave to honor the memory of Saigyo's wife and daughter.
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  • Yokobue no Koizuka
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho Shimoamano
    This mound in Amano no Sato, Wakayama was built to honor the memory of Yokobue. Yokobue was a woman who served Kenreimonin (the daughter of Taira no Kiyomori) and appeared in Chapter 10 of the Tale of the Heike. Saito Tokiyori, a retainer of Taira no Shigemori, won her heart with his transverse flute playing, but the star-crossed couple would be torn apart because of the difference in their station. Tokiyori later became a monk and changed his name to Takiguchi Nyudo. Yokobue herself later become a nun and established a hermitage in the area where she lived until dying at the age of 19. A stone monument next to the mound is engraved with a poem she composed. There is a legend in Koyasan that the deceased Yokobue was finally able to be reunited with Takiguchi Nyudo after being reborn as a bush warbler.
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  • Fruit Picking in Katsuragi Town
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho
    Katsuragi is a town located in a hilly part of northern Wakayama Prefecture through which the Kinokawa River flows. The town is notable for the high density of orchards that offer fruit picking over its entire area. The farms grow a wide variety of fruits including persimmons, peaches, strawberries, plums, and jabara citrus, ensuring that visitors can enjoy some form of fruit picking all year long. The town's orchards are also notable for their great-tasting organically-grown fruit. One particularly well-known specialty of the town is its Shigo no Kushikaki skewered persimmons, which have a history dating back more than 400 years. The town has launched a major initiative to sell fruit grown in the town under the Katsuragi brand.
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  • "Shiga Fureai no Sato ""Arigato no Mise"""
    Shopping
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho Shiga 1348-2
    This farmer's market is located along National Route 480, which connects Katsuragi Town to Koyasan. Customers can feel the warmth of being welcomed by the elderly people who work in the region. The market offers local seasonal vegetables and processed products such as miso paste, rice cake, and pickles at reasonable prices. The Makuni River that flows nearby is a firefly habitat, making the area a major sightseeing destination in the summer. The market's large parking lot makes it a convenient hub for sightseeing by car.
  • Hinnyo no Itto, Grave of Oteru
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho Kamiamano
    The Torodo (Lantern Hall) at Koyasan Okunoin Temple has a lantern that has remained lit for nearly a millennium. It is said that a young girl named Oteru sold her hair to donate the lantern as a memorial to her adoptive parents. A small grave and stone memorial dedicated to Oteru still exists in a corner of Amano no Sato, Katsuragi Town. The temple's memorial tower was built by Nyoshunni in 1682. It is said that a monk from Amano named Joi subjected himself to the austerity of vicarious suffering for ten years in 1688 in order to save women from suffering. A stone memorial was built later.
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  • Konnyaku Kobo
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho Hoshikawa 324
    This cafe is located on National Route 480 heading from JR Kaseda Station to Mt. Koya. It boasts a menu featuring items made entirely with ingredients sourced locally in Wakayama. Their specialty is their omelette rice, which is made with a homemade tomato sauce. The rice contains konnyaku (yam cake), the cafe's namesake, which and gives the dish a unique mouthfeel when combined with the fluffy eggs on top. The cafe also offers coffee and cake sets. Its outdoor terrace seats offer guests a view of Mt. Koya and the persimmon orchards built on its slopes. The cafe makes a convenient rest stop while sightseeing by car.

    We had a family business in Mt. Koya. On our way back from Mt. Koya, we dropped in at a small farmers market, Konnyaku-no-sato, where we bought some good vegetables at low prices. As it was lunch...

  • Kaki no Chaya Yorimichi
    Shopping
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho Nishiiburi 612-1
    This farmer's market is located on a farm road that runs along the Bentendani River a 10-minute walk from JR Nakaiburi Station. It sells locally-grown seasonal fruits and vegetables, processed products, and other items. Katsuragi is a major fruit producing town, so the market has an especially repertoire of fruit varieties. An attached cafe serves fresh strawberry juice, peach smoothies, and other drinks made with fresh fruit. The cafe also offers a number of popular items that incorporate local flavors such as yakitori-don (grilled chicken on rice) made with Kishu Umedori chicken. The lively market also regularly serves as a venue for town events and fairs.
  • HatsusakuraSake Brewing Co.
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho Nakaiburi 85
    "This sake brewing company has a brewery located a short walk from JR Nakaiburi Station on National Route 24. It is the only brewery in the foothills of Mt. Koya. It makes sake the old-fashioned way with sake rice grown using reduced agrochemicals by contracted farmers. The company's flagship sake is its Kishu Katsuragi Kawakamisyu, which has long been the favorite ""hannyato"" of Mt. Koya. Hannyato is Japanese Buddhist jargon literally meaning ""hot wisdom"" that refers to a daily allowance of sake. The company offers brewery tours (reservation required) from mid-October to early April (except for January and February). One of the highlights of the tour is the brewery's historic main building, which is a registered national tangible cultural asset."
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  • Shibuta no Sho Ikeki
    Shopping
    Wakayama Ito-gun Katsuragicho Higashishibuta 336-1
    This farmer's market is located on National Route 480 heading from JR Kaseda Station to Koyasan. It sells fruit from local orchards, local specialties, and other products. The market is notable for having its own plum orchard and chestnut farm. In the spring the market sells umeshu (plum wine) and umeboshi (pickled plums). In the fall, visitors can enjoy harvesting and roasting chestnuts. The farm grows an especially wide range of plums in the spring including Koume, Kojiroume, and Nankobai plums. Jams and other processed products made with the fruit grown on the farm make great souvenirs.
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  • Ichigoland Kapuri
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Wakayama Ito-gun Kudoyamacho Jisonin 1160
    This tourist farm is located on Prefectural Route 13, which runs along the Kinokawa River that flows through the foothills of Mt. Koya. The farm grows two varieties of strawberry: Benihoppe and Oi-C-Berry. It offers strawberry picking during the strawberry season, which runs from early January to early May. The farm is notable for using a cultivation techniques that utilizes ladybugs and mites, which are the natural enemies of strawberry pests. This low-agrochemical cultivation method allows the farm to provide strawberries that are safer and of higher quality. In addition to strawberries, the farm also grows peaches, blueberries, and other fruits. It also sells jam, making it a great place to stop for souvenirs even outside of the strawberry picking season.
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  • Kamikishiya (Hanasaka Store)
    Shopping
    Wakayama Ito-gun Koyacho Hana Saka 753-1
    "This venerable yakimochi (grilled rice cake) shop that has been in business for more than three centuries is located on National Route 480, which runs through the foothills of Mt. Koya. Their yakimochi are made with locally-grown glutinous rice and adzuki beans and have just the right amount of sweetness. The shop's plain and mugwort-flavored roasted rice cakes are also very popular as souvenirs. The first yakimochi is said to have been made by an old woman in 816, the same year that the monk Kukai first settled Mt. Koya. Her salt-flavored grilled rice cakes would quickly become famous as ""Hanasaka no yakimochi"" for their unique flavor. Hanasaka yakimochi would later be flavored with sugar starting in the Kamakura period. This shop carries on the more than 1,200 year-old tradition of Hanasaka yakimochi."
  • Daimon Gate
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Ito-gun Koyacho Koyasan
    "This 25.1 meter-tall vermillion gate towering over the entrance to Koyasan serves as the temple settlement's main gate. When the temple was settled, a torii (shrine gate) was built in Tsuzuraoridani below the location of this gate originally served as the main gate. This gate burned down several times due to a forest fire and a lightning strike The current building was constructed in 1705. The highlight of the gate is the pair of Kongo Rikishi statues that flank both sides of the gate. Depicted with intense scowls and muscular physiques, these imposing figures are said to be the largest of their kind after those of Todaiji Temple's Nandaimon. The Chinese couplet hung on the front of the gate means ""Kobo Daishi appears each morning, makes the rounds, and offers us salvation."" This expresses the idea that Kobo Daishi is always with us, a tenet of the faith practiced in Koyasan."
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  • Fudodo
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Ito-gun Koyacho Koyasan 152
    This sugaruhafu-style building is located east of the Danjo Garan beyond the Chumon gate in Koyasan. The building, which looks much like the residence of a Heian period noble, is an oddity among all the temples that stand in Koyasan. Many mysteries surround it including the exact reason for its construction and why there are no signs of a fire altar despite being a hall dedicated to Acala. Constructed during the Kamakura period in 1198, the hall was designated as a National Treasure in 1899. In 1908 it was repaired and relocated to its current location. Although Koyasan has suffered many conflagrations, fires never reached the area where the hall was originally located. For this reason, it is one of the few buildings from the period that retain its original form.
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  • Gobyo
    Travel / Tourism
    Wakayama Ito-gun Koyacho Koyasan 550
    "This mausoleum located in the past Mt. Koya's Okunoin Temple is the final resting place of Kobo Daish Kukai. Considered the most sacred place even in World Heritage Koyasan, it is visited by people from around the world. The building's hogyozukuri-style roof covers a narrow isle that surrounds its rectangular core. The mausoleum, which is surrounded by three thousand year-old cedar trees on the three mountains known as Mt. Tenjiku, Mt. Yoryu, and Mt. Mani, has a solemn and dignified appearance. Kobo Daishi is considered by the faithful to still be meditating in his mausoleum. Every morning and noon monks perform a ritual called ""shojinku"" in which an offering of food is made to Kobo Daishi. It is said that he responds to prayers made at his mausoleum and that he guides visitors to and from the Ichi-no-hashi bridge. This idea is rooted in the concept of Dogyo Ninin (""Kobo Daishi is always with me"") that is taught in Koyasan."
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  • JA Kinosato Farmer's Market OINACITY
    Shopping
    Wakayama Iwade-shi Ibaramoto 20
    "This farmer's market is located about a 20-minute walk from Iwade Station on the JR Wakayama Line. It is the sister store of the Mekkemon Hiroba farmer's market, which is also operated by JA Kinosato. The market, which opened in 2013, offers locally-harvested fresh fruits and vegetables, rice, and other agricultural products at reasonable prices. Other popular offerings include bento boxes and side dishes made with seasonal ingredients. Every Saturday there is a morning market called ""OINA Utagoe Marche"" where producers sell their products face-to-face with customers."
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Wakayama prefecture unites pilgrims, food lovers, and culture buffs in a tranquil corner of Japan at the base of the Kii Peninsula. The setting for many a Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail, Wakayama invites those in search of spirituality from one side of the prefecture to the other, from the 100-plus Buddhist temples of the sacred Mount Koya in the west to the inspiring temples of the Kumano Sanzan set among breathtaking nature in the east. Once the grueling hike is complete, make a beeline for Wakayama city to savor some of the country’s most delicious ramen noodles.

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