Nanatsugama-daki belongs to one of the most dramatic pieces of terrain in Japan: Osugidani in Odai Town, Taki District, Mie Prefecture, a gorge counted among the country's three greatest. The fall's name — "Seven Kettles Falls" — describes its structure exactly: a tiered cascade that pauses in a series of deep, kettle-like plunge pools as it descends, with a total drop the sources put at more than 120 meters. That combination of height and stepped form, set inside a gorge of national reputation, earned it selection among Japan's official Top 100 Waterfalls. It is less a single curtain of water than a staircase of basins, each one carved and filled by the fall above it.
Visiting Nanatsugama Falls
The fall lies in the Osugidani gorge, in Odai Town, Taki District, Mie Prefecture — a valley known as one of Japan's three great gorges.
