Hiking Japan's Ancient Trail | Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In October 2022, not long after the borders reopened, myself and my two younger brothers went to Japan and hiked the ancient Kumano Kodō Pilgrimage. The closest I'll ever feel to being in a Ghibli film... I’m already dreaming of my next time back.
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You’re such an amazing storyteller. And it’s so beautiful to see siblings having adventures together as adults, that’s really special 💫
“Like slippers with worn in soles” ❤ A snappy, glitchy but beautifully narrated story about three siblings on a pilgrimage to honour their roots. I shed a tear seeing their mum at the end 😢
Finding videos like this is kind of like finding a treasure. There's something magical about your editing and storytelling - that brought me, from a person who only watched this video to plan their own hike, to someone who was invested and almost felt like a part in your own journey.
Truly amazing work.
Elina, this is beautiful! You’re making your Mum so proud and I feel she was with you three in spirit. ❤ Im so very sorry for your loss, I also lost my Mother during the Pandemic. Thank you for sharing your journey with us all. Blessings and much Aloha 🙏💜🌎☮️🌎💜🙏🌲🌲🌲
Fantastic filming and also phenomenal storytelling combining your childhood and also nowadays grown-up with your brothers!
Just back from Kumano Kodo last month and already miss the scenery and phytoncid soooo much! Great film and keep it up!💪💪💪
I so loved the vulnerability in this video. Thank you for sharing your journey with us!
Such a wonderful journey. I can see your mum in each of you. She is right there traveling with you...always.🦋
This is a beautiful tribute to your mum, Elina. It looks like an incredible journey and the scenery is breathtaking. Thanks for sharing this special adventure with us🥰
Ahhh an early Christmas present, another beautifully documented Elina hike that makes me teary!
Have a wonderful Christmas my friend :')
@@ElinaOsborne hi. Do you have a list of places where you stayed when you walked the Kumano Koda. Did you book all in advance. Love your vids. Thanks, Mike
This is a dream of me & my siblings too! ½ Japanese (among other things haha) & we've all wanted to hike & explore Japan more, beyond the cityscape where our family lives (Fukuoka, Osaka & Tokyo).
Oddly enough, being from Hawaiʻi, New Zealand 🇳🇿 is ALSO on our Sibling/family trip list. I've been before (did a 1.5 month roadie solo exploring both isles) & they've all wanted to go back with me when I return (hopefully soon!).
You're definitely my favorite hiking vlogger/storyteller
I don’t know how I’m only just seeing this video now but this is PHENOMENAL storytelling, editing, filming and sound design. I loved every second!
AH HANNAH THANK YOU 🤍
Excellent storytelling. Sorry about your mom. May she rest in peace 🙏
What a beautiful hike/trek! With your brothers, a trip of a lifetime that you'll never forget. I love your visual storytelling! Happy holidays.
Respect for always dropping LOTR references even when not in NZ 🖤🧙♂️ this was a great Xmas present
This is just 24mins of food, brother shenanigans and nostalgia. Iconic and classic content from ya, Elina! We want MORE
Merry xmas Elina, cheers from Norway ❄️🙌
awe there's so much wholesome love in this video, my hearts full ❤❤❤
Finally she's back!!!
What a beautiful footage!! This is so relaxing and beautiful.and also looks like a fantastic area!!Thank you very much my friends ありがとう😉
What a wonderful film and tribute to a special place and your mum ❤
I decided to finally thru-hike the PCT this year. Shortly after telling my folks, we watched your entire PCT series and both my parents loved it. Seeing a new video from you pop up in my sub box made me so happy!
I’ve never been more hyped for this video!!!!
I love to see your happy face. What a wonderful experience for the three of you. Such an amazing experience for you, Kento, and Truman.
leave for nakasendo trail next week thanks to this video when it was first posted
Your videos are always worth the wait.
Elina has a way of always making me wish for more. Such a lovely Christmas present.
This music is so soft and I never heard this type of beautiful music in my life
That’s a beautiful and special journey with your brothers. You are an amazing story teller. I hope that this walk has helped you in many ways a year after the passing of your mother. She will be by your side and watching you proudly. Kia Kaha Elina ❤
I so enjoy your work. This is like a Christmas present. Thanks
Love it. I lived in Japan for 4 years and absolutely love it there!
We all love our mums. Mine passed 4 years ago but she's with me on every mountain top. It's as close as I can get to her now.
Now I want to go and hike in Japan 🤣 I love this short film, and seeing Japan.
I am pretty sure that making that much noise in a Ryokan in the morning was VERY popular. Right up there with walking with wooden clogs on tatami.
When I lived in Japan I used to love Ryokans. There is nothing like the smell of Nattō in the morning 🤭.
Very nice video.
Hahah agreed. Luckily, we were the only ones at this place! We got a family visa through our Aunty, and Japan was just beginning to open up again (this feels a lifetime ago now).
Kia ora! Thank you for bring back happy memories of completing the Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage with my partner back in 2017 - we absolutely loved our experience. And now we are dual pilgrims having also done the Camino de Santiago several years earlier. Needless to say, hearty congratulations, it was such a treat to reminisce about my kumano experience through your video!
I absolutely loved that. I love how you make it about much more than just the hike, brilliant storytelling and beautifully shot and edited. I hope my three half Japanese kids will someday go back to NZ to tour around together.
If you're ever in Japan again I recommend doing the Omine-Okugake. A 100km hike from Yoshino, Nara through to Hongu-Taisha. I did it last year and it was bloody tough but absolutely amazing. There's one section you would either have to skip or cross dress for because unfortunately, it's still off limits for women. I've heard of Japanese women sneaking through though (good on them).
I found that so moving. What an absolutely beautiful video.
It popped up onto my screen just now and at first I thought you were fellow Australians as I didn’t pick a NZ accent. I was so excited as I haven’t come across many Australian RUclipsrs travelling in Japan, or anywhere really. I follow just a couple.
My knees are aged now and my love of hiking has slowed… a lot. Two of my three love a hike and all love Japan, as after my husband and I lived there in the early 90’s for 2 years, it took until 2014 before we could afford to take them. (Our first big oversees holiday actually being 3 weeks in a motor home in New Zealand 7 years earlier… what wonderful memories we have of that trip). But we have all been back to Japan on separate trips and my love for the nature, culture, people and food there will always remain. Maybe one more trip with just my husband and I for old times sake should be planned.
Thank you for taking us along. It was a beautiful trip. 🙂
ahh i miss my little brother and sister! such a storytelling. and thanks so much for coming all the way to japan!
Having a wee cry, miss yall and your mum. Good job leading the boys El. XX 😘
I love your videos!! your editing and videography and the way you talk about things all combines into an adventure story that is magical, nostalgic and hopeful
A loving portrait. Your Mother's radiant smile at the end!
Beautiful; looked like an awesome experience with the bros
Amazing hike and video!
Thank you. It is always a great pleasure to spend time with you. Thank you so much for sharing it with us .
Beautiful as always, thank you for sharing your journey home… ❤
a beautiful tribute to your mother. God bless
this is full bliss~
Fantastic Chrissie present. Great to have you back.
Love the editing style. Great video!
Just back from Kunamo Kodo last week, really love how you share the trail experience in this beautiful way, thank you for the great film!
A lovely film Elina. Loved how you overlaid snippets of conversations that weren't related to the scene, Nice creative touches.
I wanted to like this video 63820487 times!! Beautiful, inspiring, grounding! Thank you for sharing!
Loved it. So beautiful with family. Thanks for sharing Elina.
Elina, it’s so beautiful ♥️
Your film made me so emotional 🥹 I love your your creation 🙌 ありがとう🫶
Brilliant and joyful thank you for sharing , I remember the climb on the last day it was one of the longest continuous climbs I have ever tramped
Love this beautiful, touching film. A wonderful piece of storytelling. And, goodness me, tears at the end with your mum.
the food looks so good
Love the way you film and tell stories
Loved watching this. What a beautiful experience with your brothers. This is on my bucket list. Can’t wait !
Well done! I love about an hour from there and didn't have a clue. I suppose I know what my family is doing this weekend!
What a beautiful journey to be shared. Thanks for taking the time. So very sorry to hear about your mom.
Mike (Toronto)
Great video! Wonderful journey and storytelling!
What a beautiful journey. It’s my dream to visit Japan❤
I've missed you
love the hike!
Your video moved me. Thanks for sharing
Nice video! We did the Nakahechi route of Kumano Kodo a few years back. Absolutely magical! We hope to get back and do it again soon, maybe the Kohechi route this time.
Your music choices are superb, much appreciation from MEL! :D
Well done Elina, thank you for sharing.
So nice to see you sharing this journey with your brothers. I would love to walk the camino de Santiago with my brother for various reasons. Thank you for your beautiful storytelling !!
Really very moving. Thank you.
Beautiful video.
Wow! Amazing story. I love your branding. Everytime I see your name next to a You Tube video I know it's going to be good. This is one of my fav! The Human Spirit is remarkable. It was so heartfelt and incredible to witness siblings shared experience of love. I felt like your mother held you all in her loving spirit that lives one. Omedetou gozaimashita. O genki de... Mata imasho! Ja ne. Aloha, Kapiko aka Robert
That was so lovely Elina ! Although my heart will always push me more towards the winter side of Japan (can't beat infinite powder followed by onsens), this looks really good fun too. And your storytelling is, as always, beautiful.
the Perfect video! i'm very excited that you came to Japan！I will continue to support you.
This was beautiful. Thank you.
Loved it. More please!
A lovely film to watch on Xmas morning 💔
Loved watching this El, so incredibly talented!
Great video as always! Next time try the Kohechi route (bring a tent) and end with a few days in koyasan.
Loved it Elina. You tell such wonderful stories and so well shot. I felt I was there with you.
とても素敵な動画ですね！熊野古道を歩きたくなりました。ありがとうございます😊
Yet another awesome story shared so lovingly. Merry xmas.
Wow, that was another great hike. With your mum in spirit walking with you. Loved the ending montage as well. Have a lovely Christmas ❤
So amazing! What awesome memories to cherish forever!!
I love so much watching your videos, you are such a great storyteller, please keep on doing it :)
Beautiful story! Merry Christmas to you and your family! Thank you for sharing.
A beautiful story and adventure told in your usual engaging and well-crafted film/video. Any chance of getting a list of the places where you stayed, please? Maybe add it to your description?
so beautiful, love your videos🧡
omg i love that you went to japan!!! i havent even watched it yet and i am already so excited for you guys! i love japan too!
love it!! Makes me miss japan so much xxx
omg I didn't know this is what i've been waiting for
Dear Elena, Merry Xmas and what a nice video and a special maybe too. As you try to make the best and most beautiful images it are often the most crappy ones we cherish the most. The to us represented ones that help our memory or even have become our memory of those we love. Which in a way, going with those images and memories to Japan what might feel as a trail back. But creating new memories and images at the same time, to hold and cherish now and for those to see long after.
As you said trails alone or shared...but you always carry the images, and even sounds taste and smells along with you where ever you go. So why this video at least to me feels special. Watch your first video. It took you 9 seconds to put your mom in, and your brothers. And so many miles, travels, tastes, smells, and encounters later this video shows, that whatever we photograph we unseeing and unnoticeable also, but always photograph ourselves with it.
Thanks.
Inspirational
What a great video. Can´t wait to the Kumano Kodo. Elina I highly recommend you to do "el camino de Santiago" (St James Way) in Spain. Is one of the best experiences you can ever have =)
Been waiting for this video! Dreaming of one day hiking from the top of Japan all the way to the bottom, but there's no long distance trail that exists for it(yet). Guess it'll be a lonnng road walk by the time I get around to piecing a route together. It's good to see some new content from you; top tier as always.
Thanks Lucas! There is the Michinoku though? 👀
Absolutely loved the video! I've now made this my new 3 year goal and anytime I feel like I need motivation I watch this back and it puts it right back there for me! Do you have any source material for the trail and where you stayed etc?
thank you! I haven't made a video on a how-to - but there are a couple on RUclips!
MOM, ELINA UPLOADED AGAIN!!!!
Kia ora. That's amazing. We are doing that this November. But I'm going to ask the obvious question that nobody seems to be asking. 😅 where did you store the big luggage while you did the multi day hikes?
Another fantastic documentary of your adventures. Any wild camping opportunities along the trail?