Kegon Falls

Kegon Falls (華厳滝, Kegon no Taki) are located at Lake Chūzenji (source of the Oshiri River) in Nikkō National Park near the city of Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. The falls were formed when the Daiya River was rerouted by lava flows. About twelve smaller waterfalls are situated behind and to the sides of Kegon Falls, leaking through the many cracks between the mountain and the lava flows. At 97 m high, it is one of Japan's three highest waterfalls. In the autumn, the traffic on the road from Nikko to Chūzenji can sometimes slow to a crawl as visitors come to see the fall colors. The Kegon Falls are infamous for suicides, especially among Japanese youth. Misao Fujimura (1886 – May 22, 1903) a Japanese philosophy student and poet, is...