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Overnight on Mt. Koya

Spending a Night on This Sacred Peak

Donny Kimball
7 min readFeb 14, 2020

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A giant pagoda at Mt. Koya’s Danjo Garan in Wakayama Prefecture
This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

Grizzled veterans of Japan travel are likely cringing right now. Really, Donny? Mt. Koya? I thought you focused exclusively on off the beaten path destinations. What gives? Hasn’t this mountaintop Buddhist enclave gotten enough attention already? Honestly, here the answer is a resounding no…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/