The Otonashi Waterfall was something I was only made aware of after doing a double-take on our first trip to Japan by looking through an old LP book as it was near the Sanzen-in Temple…

The Minoh Waterfall was a waterfall that I anticipated visiting ever since a website visitor made a very well-written submission about it a few years ago…

The Amedaki Waterfall was one of our easier visits to a waterfall in Japan. It was where the Fukuro River (Fukurogawa) dropped some 40m over a columnar basalt cliff. We were able to see evidence….

The Saruo Waterfall was one of the easiest waterfalls that we managed to see that was off the beaten path in Japan. For a waterfall that was included as one of Japan’s Top 100 Waterfalls as…

The Tendaki Waterfall was a bit of a waterfall-saturation hike for us. This was because the trail had to have featured at least seven named waterfalls before reaching the tall Tendaki…

The Harafudo Waterfall was one of the more obscure waterfalls that we visited as it was off the beaten track well west of the Kansai area (where the cities of Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara are located)…

The Yoro Waterfall felt like a popular locals attraction as my parents and I definitely noticed that even though it was very busy, practically none of the visitors except us were foreign tourists…

The Amida Waterfall was kind of our waterfalling excuse to take a quick detour as we were making the long drive from Takayama to Inuyama. Included as one of Japan’s Top 100 Waterfalls, it was…

The Hirayu Waterfall was a classic columnar waterfall that was accentuated by the onset of the koyo (Autumn colors) during our visit. An emphatic member of the Japan’s Top 100 Waterfalls from the…

The Sanbon Waterfall was a three-segmented waterfall that was one of the more unusual waterfalling experiences that we’ve had in Japan. From reading the kanji signs pertaining to this falls, we…

The Zengoro Waterfall was the third of three significant waterfalls that we visited on the Koonogawa (Koono River), which was the main river passing through the famed Norikura Highlands draining…

The Ryujin Waterfall was an unexpected waterfalling surprise because we didn’t expect to visit any falls while seeking out one of the outdoor public baths in the Shirahone Onsen area. However…

The Naena Waterfall was one of our more pleasant waterfalling experiences in Japan. As you can see from the photo at the top of this page, we happened to have timed our visit for the near peak of…

The Jofu Waterfall was a rare waterfall where we managed to experience it surrounded by the peak of the koyo (or Autumn-colored foliage). Given how much difficulty we had trying to reach this…

The Senga Waterfall was our waterfalling excuse to explore the vertical Shosenkyo Gorge just up the mountains from the city of Kofu. The waterfall itself was said to be 30m tall though it appeared…

The Shoji Waterfall was a grand waterfall that my parents and I had to endure a bit of drama to reach. That drama included going on a bit of a “joyride” as the Japanese GPS included…

The Joren Waterfall was a gushing waterfall backed by some pretty pronounced basalt columns at its base. We happened to visit this waterfall on a day where it was raining pretty hard…

The Syasui Waterfall was a very tall and slender waterfall that seemed to have a bit of a spiritual air to our visit here. Perhaps the reason why we thought this was that our visit included…

The Fukuroda Waterfall was a grand waterfall consisting of multiple layers on the Takigawa while sporting reported dimensions of a cumulative height of 120m and a width of about 73m…

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…