My partner and I (I am female) will be hiking near Omine-san and want to continue along the ridgeline to Hongu. We have a Omine-san (# 57 map) and we are struggling with which is the best trail to come up to stay away from Sanjo-ga-take-goya. The map shows two trails coming from the north-east of Sanjo-ga-take-goya, with the more eastern trail joining the trail just east of Kosasa-shuku. Would this be the suggested trail for a female to use to get on the ridgeline? We are likely going to try to take a taxi from Yoshino train station to the small town where the trail looks like it starts from, does anyone know the name of this town on the 169?
Any suggestions as to get back to Tokyo from Hongu? We figure the hike will take about 5 days or so (we are Calgarians who do a lot of distance hiking so this will be an easy hike even with tents and all of our food) and we were going to wing it from Hongu on, but having a plan from Hongu to Tokyo would be good too!