Ohko-no-taki waterfallPhoto: Chris 73 / CC BY-SA 3.0
Ohko-no-taki is on the list of Japan's 100 best waterfalls. The tourism association notes that you can walk right up to the base and feel the spray two minutes from the car park.
- Getting there
- Bus 8:40 or 12:50 from Miyanoura Port, 1 h 45 min, ¥2,100; taxi about ¥15,400, our estimate
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
One of Japan’s 100 best waterfalls, on the south-west coast. A five-minute walk from the bus stop leads close to the plunge pool; toilets at the car park. Free. The bus back leaves at 11:00 or 15:25, so by bus it takes most of a day.
- Needs the ship in by 07:30, or a sailing at 19:15 or later (the bus leaves Miyanoura Port only at 8:40 and 12:50, and the 15:25 back reaches it at 17:09): the call length alone does not decide it.
- 5 hr 30 min door to door needs a 7.5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Ohko-no-taki waterfall and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 5 hr 30 min goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 2 hr 10 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
Do · ~5hShiratani Unsuikyo moss forest
Cedar, moss-covered granite and clear streams at 600–1,050 m, 10 km above Miyanoura.
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See · ~5hYakusugi Land
The higher recreation forest, at 1,000–1,300 m above Anbo, with five boardwalk and trail courses among named cedars: Buddhasugi, about 1,800 years old, and Hahakosugi, about 2,600.
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See · ~5hKigensugi cedar
A cedar of about 3,000 years, 19.5 m tall and 8.1 m round, beside the forest road.
See the detail