There were even professional pilgrims called 'sanjusando gyoja' (literally meaning 'thirty-three times ascetic') who completed one pilgrimage by making the Sanjusankasho pilgrimage thirty-three times at the request of others such as a local area.
地域などから依頼を受けて三十三箇所を33回巡礼することで満願となる「三十三度行者」と呼ばれる職業的な巡礼者もいた。