Tendaki — the "heaven fall" — is the crown of an entire gorge. The Tendaki Gorge at Ikada, Oya-cho, in Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture, is a valley cut by the Tendaki River, which rises on Mount Hyonosen, the highest peak in the prefecture. Numerous waterfalls punctuate the gorge, but Tendaki itself, dropping 98 meters, is the celebrated one: counted among the Three Famous Falls of Tajima and selected for Japan's official Top 100 Waterfalls. The valley lies within the Hyonosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park, its slopes covered in old-growth forest — a setting where the fall reads as the final, tallest gesture of a landscape built almost entirely of falling water.
Visiting Tendaki Falls
A walking path runs along the gorge through old-growth forest — it has been selected among Japan's "100 Forests for Forest Bathing" — passing the gorge's many falls en route to Tendaki. The valley is at Ikada, Oya-cho, Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture, within the Hyonosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park.
