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100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan · No. 15

Yasu Falls 安の滝

Drop 90 m (295 ft)Kitaakita, AkitaTohoku region
Yasu Falls
Yasu Falls (安の滝)Photo: 津島修三 — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.1 jp
Drop90 m (295 ft)
LocationKitaakita, Akita, Japan
RegionTohoku
Selected Waterfalls listNo. 15 of the 100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan (Nihon no Taki Hyakusen, 1990)
Coordinates39.9441° N, 140.614° E

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Overview

Yasu Falls is located at an altitude of about 800 meters and divided on two levels above and below. The difference is about 60 meters above and about 30 meters below. There is a parking lot and a public toilet in the entrance, and the lower waterfall has about 45 minutes of Treking and 15 minutes of climbing steep slopes from the lower waterfall, allowing you to go to the top of the waterfall. A rainbow may take place on a sunny afternoon. Red leaves are chosen second in the 100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan in mid-10s to late October.

It's a myth

The legend of the village girl Yass. A girl named Yassu was present during the holidays, and she fell in love with Kuntaro, who works for Kanyama. But in the mountains, the relationship between men and women was legal, and Kuntaro's associates made a fuss, so Kuntaro left behind him to tell his friends he was coming to pick him up later. But the friend didn't deliver the message to Yass because he was afraid that his friends would be punished. Not knowing that, Yas kept waiting for Kuntaro, but there was no sign of his appearance. One day one of my friends said, "Kentaro got caught for breaking the law, so we should forget about it." And Yass will throw himself out of the waterfall. Since then, this waterfall has been called "Yas Falls," and when it comes to this waterfall, young men and women have come to visit it.

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Access

Go from 105 to 1033X. Go to Nakano and Taniji. I've got about 20 minutes to take a safe fall path from the front of the bridge to the Yasu Falls parking lot. It's 30 minutes from Akita Inland Railway to Akita Inland Station in Akita. The Kuichi Falls road, two and a half kilometers from China or the bridge, is easily paved and can cover up to a microbus. The playwalk has a rough section, although it's maintained. In the summer, we have a lot of Ab Hitch, and it's the home of the Snoopy Bear. The snow will shut us down from the middle of November until late May.

The nearby waterfall

There are many valley valleys and waterfalls around Moriyama Moriyama and Yoshiyama County Nature Park. The Yasu Falls is in the middle and valley, and the valley is open, and the valley is in the valley, with a range of 108 feet, and a peculiar shape of the pygmy waterfalls, and the limestone canyons, to include them in the great waterfalls, from small names, to countless waterfalls.

Text adapted from the Japanese Wikipedia article 安の滝, 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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