Kanba Falls holds a triple crown of national recognition. The 110-metre waterfall at Kanba in Maniwa, northern Okayama Prefecture, is designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty — under the formal name "Kanba-baku" — and appears both in the Nihon Hyakkei collection of Japan's hundred landscapes and in the official Top 100 Waterfalls. Its surroundings carry protection of their own as part of the Yubara-Okutsu Prefectural Natural Park. Stack those designations together and Kanba emerges as Okayama's definitive waterfall: a major drop by any national standard, embedded in parkland, and certified scenic by three separate traditions of Japanese landscape selection spanning the modern era.
Visiting Kanba Falls
The falls is at Kanba in Maniwa city, northern Okayama Prefecture, with its surroundings lying inside the Yubara-Okutsu Prefectural Natural Park. The sources give no further trail or transport detail.
