Ohenro Sanpo: Shikoku 88 Trail

Your everyday steps carry you along the 1,400km Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. Walk where you live, arrive where the road leads.

Walk the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage from wherever you live.

Ohenro Sanpo reads the steps you already take each day and moves you along the real 1,400km route that circles the island of Shikoku. Your everyday walk to the station, around the park, or up the stairs carries you from temple to temple. When you have walked far enough, you arrive at the next temple, and a small ceremony marks it.

WALK THE REAL ROUTE

• The full course of all 88 temples, from Ryozenji to Okuboji, mapped along the actual pilgrim way
• Your steps come straight from the Health app, so there is nothing extra to start or stop
• Watch the little pilgrim walk your progress across the map, day by day
• See exactly how far the next temple is, and how much of the whole journey is behind you

A TEMPLE WORTH ARRIVING AT

• Each arrival is celebrated with a stamp, falling petals and a look at the temple you reached
• Read about every temple: its principal image, its founder, its sect, its address and its story
• Photographs of the temples, so each arrival is a place and not just a number
• Look back over the whole journey any time, and share how far you have come

KEEP THE HABIT

• Set your own daily step goal and see the month laid out in a calendar
• Gentle reminders: an evening recap, a nudge when your goal is close, a note when a temple is near
• Weather for where you are, with a word of advice from your walking companion
• Small pieces of walking science and pilgrimage lore, so there is always something new on the way

The Shikoku pilgrimage is over a thousand years old, and walking all of it takes about six weeks. Very few of us have six weeks. This app lets the journey take as long as it takes, one ordinary day at a time.

No account needed. Your steps and your progress stay on your device.

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