Kegon Falls
In Nikko there are 48 waterfalls, but the most famous of these is the Kegon Falls (Kegon no taki). This, besides being the highest in Nikko, with its 97 meters high, is the third highest in Japan (after Nachi Falls and Fukuroda).
Kegon Falls are located in Tochigi Prefecture, on Lake Chuzenji, in Nikko National Park.
The falls were formed when the Daiya River was rerouted by lava. About eleven small waterfalls are situated right next to the Kegon.
People could not get too close to the falls until 1900, when Gorobei Hoshino, built a tea house near the base of the base. I take you home to be built over seven years.
The first elevator down to the base of the falls was built in 1930.
Cataracts are also well known for its large number of suicides carried out in this, since Misao Fujimura , a young poet of 18 years committed suicide in 1903 at the falls. After his suicide, many young people went to the falls and read a poem he wrote Misao Fujimura up in a tree near the falls, just after reading his poem, the youth jumped to commit suicide.
Information translated and adapted from Wikipedia and Nikko-jp .
