#1 · 10 m drop
Nikobuchi Waterfall
Ino Town · Kochi Prefecture · Japan
I hadn't heard of Niko Buchi until a friend mentioned it, almost as an afterthought, and even then it took some digging to find it. It's on the Edagawa, a small tributary that feeds into the Niyodo River, up in the mountains around Ino Town.
I'll admit I went in expecting the photos to be exaggerated. They're not. The water really is that blue, and locals say a water god, a serpent, lives in the pool. Standing there, I got why that story has stuck around this long.
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