Choshi-ga-taki pours off the foothills of Mount Adatara at Ishimushiro, in the Atami district of Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. The name comes from its shape: the 48-meter fall narrows and pours like a choshi, the slender flask used for serving sake. Local legend gives the plunge pool a darker resonance — a dragon god was said to dwell there who would grant rain if a daughter were offered to the falls, and the story tells of a village headman's daughter who threw herself into the basin to end a drought that was starving her village. The fall carries both the elegance of its name and the weight of that tale.
Visiting Choshi Falls
The falls lie on the Adatara mountainside at Ishimushiro, Atami-machi, in western Koriyama. Sources say little about formal facilities; it is a mountain waterfall reached on foot.
