🌸 Noire Henro-san: Prefecture Foot Map - 2024-2025

👣 indicates visit completed

🕉️ indicates goshuin/stamp received;

at Temple 88, a certificate called a kechi-gan-shō (結願証), meaning “fulfillment of one’s wishes, can be obtained.

✔️ indicates Sekisho

▪️Each prefecture has a temple named Kokubun-ji, which are official state Buddhist temples.

ø Ichinomiya (Prefectural Shrine) of Iyo (Ehime)

🚡A ropeway travels from the footbofvthe mountain tobthe temple.

++ The temple was closed during the movement to abolish Buddhism in the Meiji period, and it’s role was taken over by nearby Anraku-ji Temple. Zenraku-ji only regained its full status as a pilgrimage temple in 1994.

⛴️ ferry crossing (free to ohenros).

🚠Temple 66, Unpenji, is 2,600 meters above sea level. It boasts Japan`s most advanced ropeway or suspended cable car, which starts from the foot of the mountain and and goes to the peak at a brisk clip of 10 meters per second, covering a distance of 660 meters. This temple is actually situated in Tokushima prefecture –

,if you are judged as a wrongdoer by Kōbō Daishi, you are not allowed to pass through the checkpoint to the next temple. Unpenji temple is the first Sekisho temple in Sanuki (old name of Kagawa) and also the most difficult one.

,if you pass the Unpenji temple that means your journey in Sanuki will get easier.

^^ Temple 75, Zentsuji, is the home of the Zentsuji sect of Shingon (Tantric) Buddhism. It shares the spotlight with Mount Koya of Wakayama Prefecture and Kyoto`s Touji Temple as the three sacred sites of Kobo Daishi, who was born in what is now Zentsuji City.

🚉Temple 85, the cable car ride up to the temple provides a beautiful, sweeping view of Takamatsu City.

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Other Temples and Shrines

• Kochi Prefecture

Anraku-ji Temple 30 (inner sanctum) 👣 🕉️
(see ++ above)

Seto Inland Sea:

• Ōmishima Island

Ōyamazumi Shrine 👣 🕉️

Hiroshima Prefecture

• Hiroshima

Mitakidera Temple 👣 🕉️

• Miyajima

Itsukushima Shrine 👣 🕉️

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Completing The Loop

Tokushima Prefecture

Completing the circle: Return to Temple 1

• Naruto

Ryozenji 👣

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Honshu Island

Prefecture: Wakayama

• Koyasan

Kongobu-ji Head Temple 👣

Okunoin Gokusho 👣 🕉️

Osaka Prefecture

• Osaka

Shitenno-ji Temple 👣 🕉️

Isshin-ji Temple 👣 🕉️

Namba-Yasaka Shrine 👣 🕉️

Hyōgo Prefecture

• Kōbe

Ikuta-jinja Shrine 👣 🕉️

• Nara

Tōdai-ji Temple 👣 🕉️

Kofuku-ji Temple 👣

Kasuga-Taisha Shrine 👣

Tokyo Prefecture

• Tokyo

Kinryuzan Senso-ji 👣 🕉️

Meiji-jingu Shrine 👣 🕉️

Kyoto Prefecture

• Kyoto

Kinkaku-ji Temple 👣 🕉️

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百 + 1

After Shikoku

The greatest loss is what dies inside you while you’re still alive. Be bold. Be courageous. Be scared to death, and then take the next step in the direction of your dreams.

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Baadaye and Mata Ne

Shirley J 🌸

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🌸 Noire Henro-san: Prefecture Foot Map – 2024-2025

My day to day record for temples and shrines I visited along the way on the Shikoku pilgrimage in Japan.

Stage 1: Awakening

Temples 1 – 23

Prefecture: Tokushima

Stage 2: Asceticism

Temples 24 – 39

Prefecture: Kochi

Stage 3: Enlightenment

Temples 40 – 65

Prefecture: Ehime

Stage 4: Nirvana

Temples 66 – 88

Prefecture: Kagawa