Silence is this waterfall's signature. Nunobiki no Taki in Kumano City, Mie Prefecture, takes its name — "cloth-drawing falls" — from the way its 53-meter flow descends like a broad bolt of fabric hung from the lip: without roar, without spray, sliding down in one quiet sheet. The stillness extends to the land around it. The fall stands within the 20-hectare Kumano City Kirazu no Mori — the "uncut forest" — and by municipal ordinance the woods surrounding the fall are designated as forest never to be felled, preserved as a standing commitment to leave the setting exactly as it is. Fall and forest are protected together, the water's hush matched by the trees' permanence.
Visiting Nunobiki Falls (Mie)
The fall lies within the Kumano City Kirazu no Mori, a 20-hectare protected forest in Kumano City, Mie Prefecture.
