Waterfalls滝
Go after rain and get down to the lower platform.
Go after rain and get down to the lower platform.
Japan is steep and wet, which makes for a great many waterfalls, and the good ones here are usually reached on a level path from a car park rather than after a climb.
A few are unusual enough to plan a day around: one you can walk behind, one that falls beside a vermilion pagoda, one that drops out of a lake at 1,270 metres, and one that freezes solid in a hard winter.
They are best after rain and in the two green weeks of May, and several are floodlit in the autumn colour weeks.
The rock near the falls is wet from the spray, so shoes with grip make it more comfortable. Gorge paths close for a day or two after heavy rain — check that morning.
Each links to its prefecture.
Wide, thin, and you can walk behind it. Advance booking on some days.
133 metres beside a vermilion pagoda, at the end of a pilgrim path.
97 metres out of Lake Chuzenji, with a lift down to the viewing platform.
Four steps down a wide rock face, through a tunnel. Freezes in a hard winter.
Falls into a columned rock gorge that you row into yourself.
Wide and shallow across a rock shelf, walked around from above.