Tag: waterfalls


  • This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend things we’d genuinely suggest to a friend. Oita has more waterfalls than most visitors ever hear about, and almost none of them show…

  • Ryumon Falls: Kokonoe’s Dragon Gate and Its Suspended Water Slide

    This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Drive far enough into the Kuju highlands and you’ll find a wide, curtain-like waterfall dropping over a flat rock wall into a river pool below โ€”…

  • Yufugawa Ravine: A Hidden Gorge Near Yufuin You Can Actually Walk Into

    This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most visitors driving between Yufuin and Beppu never learn this gorge exists. There’s no big roadside sign pointing to it, no tour bus parking lot —…

  • Fukino Falls: The Quieter of Usa’s Three Waterfalls

    This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Tucked into the Yabakei uplands outside Usa, Fukino Falls (็ฆ่ฒด้‡Žใฎๆป) drops about 65 meters through a narrow cleft in the rock, splitting partway down into two…

  • Chinda Falls: Oita’s Other Niagara and Its Ruined Power Plant

    This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend things we’d genuinely suggest to a friend. The Waterfall Almost No One Stops For Oita likes to claim it has two Niagaras. Harajiri…

  • Higashi Shiiya Falls: Kyushu’s Answer to Nikko’s Kegon Falls

    Everyone who’s been to Nikko has heard of Kegon Falls โ€” the 97-meter curtain of water that draws crowds by the busload. Almost no one outside Japan has heard of its unofficial Kyushu counterpart: Higashi Shiiya Falls, an 85-meter drop tucked into the Yaba-kei gorge country of Usa City, Oita, that locals call “Kyushu Kegon”…