As they became popular, the pilgrimage spread almost throughout Honshu (the main island of Japan), Shikoku, and Kyushu, but was not widely accepted in areas where the Jodo Shinshu sect (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) was dominant.
流行時にはおおむね本州、四国、九州の全域に広がったが、浄土真宗地域には広まりにくかった傾向がある。