Wakayama Day Trip Tours
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Wakayama
10 hours
Exploring Koyasan
Women were forbidden to enter Koyasan until 1872. Koyasan, literally means Mt Koya, a 900 high highland located in Wakayama Prefecture is a center of Buddhist study. A founder of Shingon Sect, Kobo Daishi Kukai who was granted by emperor Saga to use this land in 816. You can touch the Buddhist concept of vicissitude in a walk through the path toward innermost sanctum in deep ceder tree forest.
Exploring Koyasan
FROM$290/ per group
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Masahisa M.
5.00 / 5
(63 reviews)
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Wakayama
10 hrs 30 mins
One day tour to Mt. Koya from Wakayama
Mt. Koya is a sacred site for Esoteric Buddhism established by high priest Kukai in 816. He tried to build the Buddas’ world in a small mountaintop basin of altitude 800m. There are 117 temples there centered by the Temple Complex where the important buildings are located. People believe that the high priest Kukai is still alive to meditate in his chamber in the holy cemetery Okuno-in. They say there are 400,000 tomb stones, monuments, pagodas and others there.
One day tour to Mt. Koya from Wakayama
FROM$290/ per group
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Hiroyuki T.
4.97 / 5
(194 reviews)
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