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Long-distance trail in Japan
Shikoku Pilgrimage
Shikoku Pilgrimage runs 1 225 km through Japan in one continuous line. The route below is the waymarked relation itself, kept by the people who paint the blazes, not a line traced over a map by us.
Walk any of it with wayly and the trail keeps its own score. Every track you record clears the ground you covered, and the share of the trail lying inside that cleared ground is your progress — 980 km of it — 80 % and it counts as walked. Nothing to tick, and nothing to remember when you get home.
Trail passport
61 stamps, one for every 20 km — pressed by the tracks you record, not by a button
About the trail
The Shikoku Pilgrimage (四国遍路, Shikoku Henro) or Shikoku Junrei (四国巡礼) is a multi-site pilgrimage of 88 temples associated with the Buddhist monk Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) on the island of Shikoku, Japan. A popular and distinctive feature of the island's cultural landscape, and with a long history, large numbers of pilgrims, known as henro (遍路), still undertake the journey for a variety of ascetic, pious, and…
Walk it, or just look closer
The full route view carries the height profile, the climbs, the weather over it and a GPX you can put on a watch. Open Shikoku Pilgrimage in the route viewer →
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Questions
How long is Shikoku Pilgrimage?
1 225 km. wayly counts it walked when your recorded tracks cover 980 km of it — 80 %.
Which countries does Shikoku Pilgrimage cross?
It stays inside Japan.
How is Shikoku Pilgrimage waymarked?
With a red blaze, which is the colour this page and the app draw it in — the line you see here is the relation the local waymarkers maintain, not a line we drew.
