Mt. Shigi Route Exploration
Hello Friends, 👋
next year in June (still a while out), there is the Music Ai Hackathon and at the time Martin would like to hike to the there with a few attendees. To prepare for this, Martin would like to explore the hiking routes up to the Gyokuzo Temple. From the west, six possible routes make sense up the mountain.
- A: Starting from Hattorigawa station, the most cultural route passes by the Yao Museum of History and Folklore and a few other cultural relics and on the route passes Mizunomijizoin which seems to have a gorgeous view. This route is also quite long and reaches the Temple from the north.
- B: The easiest and obvious route would be from Shigisan-guchi station or - using the Cable-car - Takasuyama Station. Direct would be super-short and skip the mountain ascension.
- C: The easiest by train but also the longest starts at JR Kashiwara station. It passes by the seemingly quite beautiful, Nudehiko Shrine and a big power station.
- D: The fourth route passes starts from Onji station, passes the Chakichian culture house (with a nice cafe) and the Onji Shrine - which looks lovely - before winding up the hill, a medium length route it seems.
- E: From the south, taking the unconventional Kawachi-Katakami Station, it is possible to stop by the very interesting looking Landslide Infrastructure Museum (they have free guided tours), before taking a relatively relaxed but longer route, passing a few lesser known shrines.
- F: (Specially interesting in April) the Route starting from Shigisan-shita and passing by a famous, steep road with a thousand cherry trees might be the most touristic one. Martin went there before, its nice but also a bit underwhelming.
Anyways, this time the plan is to use route A+B. Having a look at the museum before hiking up the mountain and having a look at the main temple before tracking back to the the cable car station and heading down to the west.
8:45 Meeting at Hattorigawa Station 9:00 Enter Yao Museum of History and Folklore 10:00 Meeting outside the Museum for those who want to skip it. 11:45 Bento Lunch at Mizunomijizoin - (Bring it with you!) 14:00 Heading to Benzaiten Falls 14:20 Arrival at the Chogosonshi-ji entrance (hop-on point for people who want to take a different route) 15:30 Finish visiting of the Temple area. 17:05 Last cable car down
This is the plan for now, lets talk more on → Discord in the #meet-irl channel.
Mt. Shigi Route Exploration
Hello Friends, 👋
next year in June (still a while out), there is the Music Ai Hackathon and at the time Martin would like to hike to the there with a few attendees. To prepare for this, Martin would like to explore the hiking routes up to the Gyokuzo Temple. From the west, six possible routes make sense up the mountain.
- A: Starting from Hattorigawa station, the most cultural route passes by the Yao Museum of History and Folklore and a few other cultural relics and on the route passes Mizunomijizoin which seems to have a gorgeous view. This route is also quite long and reaches the Temple from the north.
- B: The easiest and obvious route would be from Shigisan-guchi station or - using the Cable-car - Takasuyama Station. Direct would be super-short and skip the mountain ascension.
- C: The easiest by train but also the longest starts at JR Kashiwara station. It passes by the seemingly quite beautiful, Nudehiko Shrine and a big power station.
- D: The fourth route passes starts from Onji station, passes the Chakichian culture house (with a nice cafe) and the Onji Shrine - which looks lovely - before winding up the hill, a medium length route it seems.
- E: From the south, taking the unconventional Kawachi-Katakami Station, it is possible to stop by the very interesting looking Landslide Infrastructure Museum (they have free guided tours), before taking a relatively relaxed but longer route, passing a few lesser known shrines.
- F: (Specially interesting in April) the Route starting from Shigisan-shita and passing by a famous, steep road with a thousand cherry trees might be the most touristic one. Martin went there before, its nice but also a bit underwhelming.
Anyways, this time the plan is to use route A+B. Having a look at the museum before hiking up the mountain and having a look at the main temple before tracking back to the the cable car station and heading down to the west.
8:45 Meeting at Hattorigawa Station 9:00 Enter Yao Museum of History and Folklore 10:00 Meeting outside the Museum for those who want to skip it. 11:45 Bento Lunch at Mizunomijizoin - (Bring it with you!) 14:00 Heading to Benzaiten Falls 14:20 Arrival at the Chogosonshi-ji entrance (hop-on point for people who want to take a different route) 15:30 Finish visiting of the Temple area. 17:05 Last cable car down
This is the plan for now, lets talk more on → Discord in the #meet-irl channel.