Sanjo Falls is where Oze lets go. The great highland marshes of Ozegahara, one of Japan's most treasured wetland landscapes, drain into the Tadami River — and at Sanjo Falls that gathered water plunges 100 meters in the village of Hinoemata, Fukushima Prefecture, within Oze National Park. The falls thus serve as the dramatic exit point for an entire celebrated ecosystem: every stream threading the Oze marshland eventually passes over this drop. Named to Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls by the Ministry of the Environment in 1990, Sanjo pairs raw scale — a 100-meter fall on a substantial river — with a source landscape few waterfalls anywhere can claim.
Visiting Sanjo Falls
The falls lie on the upper Tadami River in Hinoemata, Fukushima Prefecture, inside Oze National Park, downstream of the Ozegahara marshland from which the river flows.
