World of Waterfalls Blog

Proxy Falls is an impressively tall dual-segmented waterfall perhaps 200ft tall. It could very well be the prime natural attraction of the Three Sisters Wilderness, and its popularity…

Sahalie Falls is the uppermost of three notable waterfalls on the McKenzie River in the Willamette National Forest. A sign by the falls claims it’s 120ft tall…

Koosah Falls is a block waterfall just downstream from Sahalie Falls and upstream from Tamolitch Falls. All of these falls are on the McKenzie River in the Willamette National…

This itinerary covered a backpacking trip to Big Pine Creek and its many glacial lakes. I accompanied an organized group that included a good friend from High School as well as folks from the law firm that he worked at…

The Big Pine Creek Waterfalls are the series of waterfalls and cascades primarily on the North Fork of Big Pine Creek. But the real objective for visitors to this part of the…

I couldn’t figure out what was causing the stomach discomfort, whether it was ingesting too much DEET, or from the filtered water, or what. In any case, my bowels were telling me it was time to go…

This itinerary was actually the latter half of a two-country, nearly two-month trip encompassing China and Japan. In this itinerary write-up, we’re only focusing on Japan since this leg of the trip could easily stand out on its own Japan separate from China…

This itinerary was actually the latter half of a two-country, nearly two-month trip encompassing China and Japan. In this itinerary write-up, we’re only focusing on Japan since this leg of the trip could easily stand out on its own Japan separate from China…

The Kamuiwakka Waterfall is a pretty well-known rotemburo (hot springs waterfall) deep in the wild Shiretoko National Park. Now even though we only managed to experience the falls by boat, I opted…

The Furepe Waterfall is kind of a percolating spring waterfall that seeps out of the sea cliffs and right into the Sea of Okhotsk. Like Kamuiwakka-no-taki, I’ve included a separate page…

The Shiretoko Waterfalls page is a page I made up to clump the many waterfalls we saw during our boat tour along the northern coast of Shiretoko-hanto from Utoro to the Shiretoko Cape…

The Oshinkoshin Waterfall is a very beautiful waterfall that’s kind of split in the middle by a tree-covered rock as the water makes it way into the Sea of Okhotsk not much further downstream…

The Ginga Waterfall (Ginga-no-taki [銀河の滝]; Ginga Falls) and Ryusei Waterfall (Ryusei-no-taki [流星の滝]; Ryusei Falls) comprised yet another set of twin Japanese waterfalls that we noticed…

The Hagoromo Waterfall sits on the western side of Daisetsuzan National Park in the Tenninkyo Gorge. This one drops some 270m in multiple steps in sheets of water giving it the appearance…

We couldn’t read the Japanese script by this closure sign, but a sign further up the path showed a picture of a menacing bear. “I don’t need to read Japanese to understand that sign,” said Julie…

The Nunobiki Waterfall (Nunobiki-no-taki [布引の滝]; Nunobiki Falls) was actually a series of four waterfalls plus smaller cascades and man-modified waterfalls. It was really a waterfall we didn’t…

The Nachi Waterfall (Nachi-no-taki [那智の滝]; also Nachi Falls) was said to be Japan’s highest waterfall at 133m though we suspect that claim would only work if the definition of waterfall was limited…

The Shomyo Waterfall and Hannoki Waterfall comprise the twin towers of Japanese waterfalls. Shomyo Daki (pictured above on the left) is said to be Japan’s tallest permanent waterfall…

The Bandokoro Waterfall is one of three notable waterfalls in the Norikura Kogen within reach as a day trip out of Matsumoto. Julie and I remembered…

For an hour-long train ride, there’s no way there could be nine more stops so my doubts that kept nagging at me finally became action. Julie asked some employee on the train, “Toyama?”…