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"What a hardcore thru-hiker can learn on the Camino de Santiago"

If you're looking for a pilgrimage where you can be alone with your thoughts a lot of or most of the time, look into the Shikoku 88 temples Buddhist pilgrimage in Japan.
- HenroDon
- Post #12
- Jun 1, 2024
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Why Walk the Camino? Where? When? With whom?
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A brief taste of the Shikoku Henro pilgrimage

There's actually a brief book about doing the pilgrimage by bus and train, 88 Temples in 24 Days: Visiting the 88 Temples of Shikoku by Bus and Train by Oliver Dunskus: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C78HVNDF?tag=casaivar02-20
- HenroDon
- Post #14
- Feb 11, 2024
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇯🇵 Kumano Kodo and Shikoku 88 (Japan)
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Shikkoku 88 compared to the Camino

As you say, some need advance reservations. There's a book called Shikoku Japan 88 Route Guide by Naoyuki Matsushita. It's the bible for walking pilgrims who can't read the Japanese guidebook. (Actually, some Japanese pilgrims use Matsushita's book because the maps are better.) There are some...
- HenroDon
- Post #5
- Jan 12, 2024
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇯🇵 Kumano Kodo and Shikoku 88 (Japan)
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Shikkoku 88 compared to the Camino

It doesn't require ceremonies at the temples (shrines are for Shinto, temples are for Buddhism, though there is some mixing) and about 95% of pilgrims stay in small inns and guest houses. A handful of temples have lodgings, and those are wonderful. It's very, very rare to stay in a private home...
- HenroDon
- Post #3
- Jan 12, 2024
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇯🇵 Kumano Kodo and Shikoku 88 (Japan)
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Walking with a guide

1985! Back when the number of people registering as having done the Camino was in the hundreds, rather than the hundreds of thousands!
- HenroDon
- Post #13
- Jan 12, 2024
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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Walking with a guide

A professor at my old university (UCSC) plans to lead a group of students here to do the Shikoku Pilgrimage. It must be a wonderful way to spend a quarter, out of the classroom, learning by doing.
- HenroDon
- Post #9
- Jan 12, 2024
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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Hello from Japan

Thanks. Right now I'm just looking at a lot of YouTube videos. Soon I should have some questions formulated.
- HenroDon
- Post #3
- Jan 12, 2024
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 👋 Introduce Yourself or Say Hello
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Walking with a guide

I've been wondering, of the roughly 450,000 pilgrims who got their compostelas last year, about how many walked the route with a paid guide? I can't find that information from either the pilgrim office or my old friend Google.
- HenroDon
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- Jan 12, 2024
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- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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Hello from Japan

Hello from Japan. I've done the Shikoku 88 Temples pilgrimage several times. Now I'm thinking about the Camino. I look forward to learning from your collective expertise.
- HenroDon
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- Jan 12, 2024
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- Camino de Santiago Forum: 👋 Introduce Yourself or Say Hello