Shingu City Tourism Association

Shingu City, located at the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula, is located in a wonderful natural environment blessed with abundant water resources and forest cultivation due to its warm, hot and rainy climate, and has been designated as Yoshino-Kumano National Park. Surrounded by rich nature such as deep forests, the Kumano River, and the blue Kumano Sea, the Kumano faith, which is rooted in the ancient worship of nature, has been passed down from generation to generation. Sacred places such as Kumano Hayatama Taisha, Kumano Hongu Taisha, and Kumano Nachi Taisha, which are manifestations of this religious spirit, and the ancient roads on which people made pilgrimages, were registered as a World Heritage Site in 2004 as ``Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.'' it was done. World heritage sites such as Kumano Hayatama Taisha, Kamikura Shrine, and Asuka Shrine are dotted throughout Shingu City, blending into the daily scenery. Experience the "mysterious city of Shingu City," where the ancient times and modern times, the divine realm and the secular world are interwoven like a mosaic.