Japan's Sacred Mountains

About this book

Two hundred real Japanese sacred mountains — Fuji and the three holy peaks, the rebirth circuit of Dewa Sanzan, the chain-climbs of Ishizuchi and Omine, wolf shrines and tengu mountains, newborn volcanoes and a southern island that is itself a god — each told the same four ways, and told in depth: Faith & History (what is believed about the peak, and how the cult grew), Highlights (the shrines, gates and sacred rocks to look for), The Pilgrim's Way & Food (how the mountain is traditionally approached, and what its foothill towns eat), and Visiting & Cautions (a practical outline, checked November 2026, never a promise).

Hiking guides give you the route and the course time. National-park guides give you the view. This is the missing book: the mountains as sacred places, 200 of them, every entry over 200 words, at $9.99 — from the itako mediums of Osorezan and the thousand-day monks of Hiei to the Oyama confraternities of Edo, the halberd on Takachiho's summit, and village Fujis no guidebook has ever listed. Climb them as the pilgrims climb them: gate first, summit by midday, and dinner in the foothill town within sight of the peak.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.