Kegon Falls

Kegon Falls drops 97 meters over a width of 7 meters in Nikko National Park, Tochigi Prefecture, on the Japanese island of Honshu, fed by water flowing out of Lake Chuzenji. The falls exist because lava flows once rerouted the Daiya River, damming its path and forcing the water over the resulting volcanic rock face in a single plunge; roughly twelve smaller cascades run alongside and behind the main falls, leaking through cracks between the mountain and the old lava flows. Kegon Falls was named one of Japan's Eight Views in 1927 and was later included on the Ministry of the Environment's Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls list in 1990, and it draws large numbers of visitors especially during the autumn foliage season. This entity documents Kegon Falls specifically as a geological formation, a waterfall created where lava flows rerouted and dammed a river.