Eight pools give Yatsubuchi no Taki its name. The "Falls of the Eight Basins" is the collective title for eight waterfalls strung through the headwaters of the Kamo River, partway up the slopes of Mount Bunagatake in Shiga Prefecture. Like several entries on Japan's official Top 100 Waterfalls list, it was selected not as a single drop but as an ensemble — a mountain stream that repeatedly gathers, falls, and pools again as it descends from the peak's mid-slopes. The name keeps the emphasis where the terrain puts it: on the succession of basins the river has carved, each fall feeding the next pool down the mountainside.
Visiting Yatsubuchi Falls
The falls occupy the source region of the Kamo River on the middle slopes of Mount Bunagatake, in Shiga Prefecture.
