新宮 (Shingū)

新宮 (Shingū) is a city of 33 thousand¹ located along the southeast coast of the Kii Peninsula. It is along a pilgrimage route honored by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, particularly for the Kumano Hayatama Taisha Shrine.

External references

Kumano Hayatama Taisha Shrine, Shingū, Nippon (Japan)

Footnotes

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.