Yonako Daibakufu — literally the "Yonako Great Waterfalls" — plunges 82 meters in the mountains of Yonako, Suzaka City, in northern Nagano Prefecture. The falls are fed by streams rising on Mount Azumaya and Mount Neko, and the plural in the name is earned: this is not a single cataract but a pair of principal falls, Gongen-daki and Fudo-daki, surrounded by more than a dozen smaller threads of water. On October 3, 2016, the entire ensemble was designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty under the collective name Yonako Bakufugun, the Yonako Falls Group — a formal recognition that the whole amphitheater of falling water, not just its two stars, is the monument.
Visiting Yonako Daibakufu
The falls sit in the Yonako district of Suzaka City, Nagano Prefecture, in the mountains between Mount Azumaya and Mount Neko. The two main falls, Gongen-daki and Fudo-daki, are viewed together with the smaller falls that share the designated scenic area.
