Sacred Sites in the Kii Mountain Range

The three sacred mountain ranges Yoshino/Omine, Kumano Sanzan and Koyasan and the connecting pilgrimage path have had an immensely important effect on Japanese religious and cultural growth and exchange. This is a place famous as the origin of the special Japanese fusion of the native Shinto belief with the Buddhist teachings that had entered from China. Even today, these sacred mountains and its pilgrimage paths remain as important cultural sites and the area is filled with countless temples and shrines.