Hiroshima Prefecture placed exactly one waterfall on Japan's official Top 100, and this is it. Jōsei Falls drops 126 metres in Sakugi, part of Miyoshi city, on a small stream two removes from a famous river: it hangs on a tributary of a tributary of the Sakugi River, itself feeding the Gōnokawa. Its record of protection is unusually precise. Hiroshima designated the fall a prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty on 25 August 1960, declared the surrounding area a prefectural nature conservation zone on 14 March 1975, and in April 1990 the national Top 100 selection confirmed what the prefecture had long maintained — that this quiet 126-metre column is Hiroshima's waterfall.
Visiting Josei Falls
Jōsei Falls is at Shimosakugi in the Sakugi district of Miyoshi city, Hiroshima Prefecture, within a prefectural nature conservation area designated in 1975. The sources record no specifics on trails or viewpoints.
