Abstract
This study analyzed the information accumulated through the five senses along the Kumano Kodo. Five groups of participants explored the pilgrimage routes, each group directed to use one of the five senses (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory) intensively in their perceptions. Then the participants wrote the sensory information thus obtained into their cognitive maps (the five senses maps). The information recorded in these maps allowed a landscape analysis centered on the senses. Compare information of the Kumano Kodo five senses and senses of visually handicapped. Illuminating the features and structures of the scenes captured by the senses.
