This is worth a side trip on any visit to Japan | Nachi Falls

I visited Nachi Falls in the Kii Mountains of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Nachi is Japan's highest single-drop waterfall, and was especially gushing today due to snow melt and recent heavy rains. I took a bus from Nachi station on the coast up to the waterfall and hiked up to it. The misty spray hits you before you even get close. I burned a prayer stick and paid extra for the closer viewing platform access. After that I hiked way up the steep stone steps to Kumano Nachi Shrine, where I walked through a gigantic live prayer tree trunk, and visited Seigantoji, an attached Buddhist temple with a classic view of an orange pagoda and the falls.
It's said that when you visit this area, your soul dies and is reborn, and when you re-enter society afterwards, you're a new and better person. There may be something to that; this was a great trip to a classic piece of mystical Japanese history.
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[@CathyS_Bx]

Oh, Jeremy, I will view this one again and again. What a sacred and enchanted place.

[@T1DWanderer]

Thanks, this was a really surreal and wonderful experience

[@Animefreaks1999]

I remember travelling to the waterfalls alone back in 2019 and I was full of negative emotions and thoughts due to life circumstances while climbing up all the steps of the Daimonzaka. However once I saw the falls from the pagoda, I was just blown away by the amazing view. It helps that this area does not have too many tourists so I could take as long as I needed to admire the waterfall in silence. Without a doubt, this became a standout moment of my trip, and I highly recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity to make the journey. Thank you for making this great video featuring the falls, it brought back the best memories of my trip!

[@j.g.8494]

What an enchanting location! It looks like heaven!

[@kamanama3671]

This is one of the places I would like to go

[@T1DWanderer]

I hope you can

[@PrimeTimeTravelers]

Wow what an amazing place with an awesome waterfall as well! Great vlog and getting there seemed easy as long as you could figure out the bus to take.

[@T1DWanderer]

Thanks again! I always feel that buses are underutilized in Japan... there are blank spots on the map where no trains go, but the bus networks are actually quite impressive (just harder to find quick info about)

[@TaimourDwidar]

thank you for the tour! Спасибо!!!

[@T1DWanderer]

You're welcome!

[@clarkmadrosen1780]

Pretty area. Nice to see and hear.😊Nice to know you....new jeremy😊 Fascinating videos 😊.

[@VictoriaGates]

Beautiful place! Cute little rural city. :)

[@T1DWanderer]

Yes it sure is!

[@VictoriaGates]

@@T1DWanderer Another Japan expat KZbinr I watch has been making travel guides to the cities and special places she visits. Might be another good way to fund your adventures. :)

[@frezzelloutoyong615]

Will go there after 2 days. Thank you for sharing your experience in Nachi falls😊

[@T1DWanderer]

Hope you had fun there too! And it's not too hot in July

[@larryjohnson6398]

That was great trip. Thank for letting us tag along. 😅

[@T1DWanderer]

Glad you could make it :D

[@mikes41720]

Thanks for sharing this trip! I love waterfalls and I hope to visit this place someday. Could you do this as a day trip from Kyoto or Osaka and come back?

[@T1DWanderer]

That would be a tall order. Perhaps technically possible, but that's a lot of rushing around. You'd probably leave very early and get back very late, especially Kyoto, and would have to limit your time at Nachi

[@Tammy-un3ql]

Great video

[@yaekotsuboi1653]

Visit, Nachi Katsura with my father once a month by train, time no one own " car" most beautiful ki-peninsula !!

[@T1DWanderer]

It's a great place!

[@naynatawde6279]

Hello there, great video!! Could you tell how much time it took for you to cover all these places? We are planning a trip soon, this info will help us plan better. Thanks much!

[@T1DWanderer]

Thanks. The falls are quite a ways away from cities like Osaka or Kyoto. It seems on a map like you can do it in a day but that would be brutal. I'd give it 2-3 days because there's lots to see around there

[@kurakukun552]

In what month is the best dates to go there?

[@litasmarin]

hi! great video!!! can i ask how did you get to nachi station and from where? (i am in nagoya right now) thank you 😊

[@T1DWanderer]

My hotel was in Shingū, so I took a bus to Nachi station (and a train back)

[@KansaiBoxer]

I’ve done it. It was years and years ago, but I didn’t do it as well as you. I have to go back and do it right.

[@nembird]

❤ the smorking area.

[@T1DWanderer]

Heh, there is a good reason for that in Japan! You'd generally render the words, for example, "cork" and "coke" the same in Japanese katakana (closer to "coke", ignoring the "r"). So when they try to go from the Japanese that sounds like "smoke" (スモーク) back to English, they aren't always sure which one it's supposed to be. (Don't know why they don't just ask an English speaker or look it up, but oh well...!)

[@nembird]

@@T1DWanderer interesting! My husband studies more languages than I do- comments on similar things. I find them fun , and suppose it’s expensive to replace signs once mistakes get noticed.

[@kamanama3671]

no one has ever pointed out the fact that there’s Shintoism and Buddhism as sibling “religions”

[@felicitarovira7606]

How to go there in a day trip?

[@T1DWanderer]

It would be difficult, because it's a long train ride and then a bus ride If you started really early in, say, Osaka, it might be possible. It would mostly depend on the bus schedules

[@lornemarsman7063]

You seem like a good person bit your presentation style is boring and not enrolling... so vanilla.. Plz change....

[@T1DWanderer]

More peppy, got it. Thanks for the feedback