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100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan · No. 14

Hottai Falls 法体の滝

Drop 57.4 m (188 ft)Yurihonjo, AkitaTohoku region
Hottai Falls
Hottai Falls (法体の滝)Photo: STB-1 at Japanese Wikipedia — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Drop57.4 m (188 ft)
Width30 m (98 ft)
LocationYurihonjo, Akita, Japan
RegionTohoku
Selected Waterfalls listNo. 14 of the 100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan (Nihon no Taki Hyakusen, 1990)
Coordinates39.10508° N, 140.16269° E

Hottai Falls is located at AkitaXZX038X. It's in the Aozawa River, which is upstream in the Shokichi River. Hottai Falls and perforations are designated as the best of the prefectures on December 17 and first of the natural monuments. One of the the 100 Selected Waterfalls of Japans.

In short

The picture in 1697 (in the year 10) is described as "The Waterfall." As to the origin of the name of the waterfall, it is said that when the legal sea came to the local village, there was an imperceptible king and the sky bowed to the waterfall.

Access

It's 25 kilometers from Iseshima Station.

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Text adapted from the Japanese Wikipedia article 法体の滝, whose full text was translated into English for this guide by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Drop and location facts cross-checked with Wikidata (CC0) and the 100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan list (Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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