Folklore gives Joren Falls a resident: the jorogumo, a spider said to take the form of a beguiling woman — a legend that has attached itself to this 25-meter fall in the Yugashima district of Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The fall drops in the upper reaches of the Kano River, in the central Izu Peninsula, and carries a double endorsement from officialdom to balance the ghost story: it is a Shizuoka Prefectural Natural Monument and one of Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls in the Ministry of the Environment's 1990 listing. The pairing is characteristic of Izu — a river gorge where designated natural heritage and old spider-wife tales occupy the same pool.
Visiting Joren Falls
Joren Falls is in the Yugashima district of Izu City, in the central Izu Peninsula, on the upper Kano River.
