Its name is a description: Nanatsugama Godan Falls, "seven pots, five steps," written 七ツ釜五段の滝 — pot-like basins strung down a stepped cascade. The falls belong to the Nishizawa Gorge, carved by the headwaters of the Fuefuki River upstream of Hirose Lake and its dam in Yamanashi Prefecture, a valley paired in name with the neighboring Higashizawa Gorge. Of the Yamanashi entries on Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls list, this is the one defined less by a single leap than by sequence — water moving through a chain of basins and drops rather than falling once. The listed height of each step is modest; the effect lies in the repetition.
Visiting Nanatsugamagodan Falls
The falls lie in the Nishizawa Gorge on the uppermost Fuefuki River, above Hirose Lake (Hirose Dam), in Yamanashi Prefecture. The extracts consulted here describe the gorge rather than the approach to the falls themselves, so check trail conditions locally.
