How about feeling the charm of the Kumano river, which is registered UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, thinking about the interaction between human and river through the experience of touching the life and culture and meeting people in the area?
熊野川で育まれてきた川舟文化。その中でも、「熊野川独特の川舟」と評される熊野川の木造船は、今では塾長谷上が唯一の船大工として製作・管理を行っています。流域唯一の船大工が手がける貴重な木造船、その乗り心地をぜひ一度体感しに来てください。
You can experience the traditional wooden bout "Sandanbo," which has three sails and go with the wind, feeling the nature like wind, voice of birds, and sound of water patting the bottom of the boat. In 2004, the Kumano River basin was registered as a World Heritage Site as the world's only "river pilgrimage route" (a component of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes on the Kii Peninsula") People in the past rode on boats between Kumano Hongu Shrine and Kumano Hayamata Shrine for pilgrimage, that consist of the "Kumano Three Mountains." Kumano Kodo has been highly regarded as the very sacred pilgrimage road for centuries in Japan.