Early Morning Walk on Okuno-in Forest Path | Koyasan, Japan 4K

Early Morning Walk on Okuno-in Forest Path | Koyasan, Japan 4K

Any quiet early morning walk on the path through Okuno-in, the resting place for many of Japan’s great leaders in a quiet cedar forest atop Mt. Koya. I started at dawn in the small mountaintop village of Koyasan. It is a popular place for tourists interested in Japanese Buddhist history and there are also visitors who stay overnight at accommodations run by monks, originally intended for those walking the Koyasan pilgrimage route. At this early hour the streets were quiet, I passed one monk and a cat on the way to Ichinohashi, the bridge at that leads into the forest.

Early May, 2025

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