Travellers with suitcases receive advice from a staff member at the tourist information centre in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, who points to a map of the Kii mountains. Tanabe is the starting point for a popular stage of the Kumano Kodo, a historic network of pilgrimage routes on the Kii Peninsula that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004 and is often called the "Japanese Way of St James".