In this summer, I visited Akita Prefecture”秋田県” and took some photographs of cascade and waterfall around Mt. Chokai”鳥海山”.Mt. Chokai”鳥海山” is an active volcano with an altitude of 2,236m that spans Yamagata”山形県” and Akita”秋田県” Prefectures. Since Mt. Chokai”鳥海山” is an active volcano, columnar joints ”柱状節理” can be seen in many places around it.
In the morning of September 19, I visited Mototaki underground stream”元滝伏流水” in the upper stream of Mototaki river”元滝川”. There is a parking area located 650m far from the Mototaki underground stream”元滝伏流水” and I walked the promenade to reach the Mototaki underground stream”元滝伏流水”.
After the arrival, I was stunned that the sound of the underground stream was very loud compared to the size of the waterfall. The water was flowing down the columnar joints covered with the moss was very powerful, and I was watching and felt that the force was coming out.
If you have a interest in cascade and waterfall of Japan, I recommend you to visit this waterfall.
This place looks AMAZING, @preceramic . Thank you so much for sharing with us. The waterfall is gorgeous and the photos you took, more than stunning. I would like to use some of them as a wallpaper.
Is this area easily accessible by public transportation?
I changed the resolutions to drop the file size of these photos under 3MB to share here, but the resolution of the original data is much higher as 5184×3888 pixels.
The nearest train station is Kisakata station”象潟駅” of JR Uetsuhonsen”羽越本線” and there is a bus from the station. It takes 35 minuites from Kisakata station”象潟駅” to the bus stop ”象潟病院前” 1km far from the waterfall and its fare is 200 japanese yen.
Thank you very much for your comment.I love taking photographs of waterfall and cascade with slow shutter speed because the flow will appear like a white cloth.
The quality of the digital camera images is affected by the size of the image sensor.
The image sensor of the camera attached to the celular phone is the smallest, so the picture quality of the photo is not comparable to that of a full-size camera, but there is no problem as long as it is posted to SNS.
Thank you very much for your words. I developed these digital images using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (a retouch software for digital images) so it seems like a painting.
If you will visit my country, you will arrive at Haneda airport, and change a plane bound to Akita airport.
It takes 1 hour and 5 minute.
After arrival to Akita airport, you have to ride a bus bound for Akita station and take a JR train”Uetsuhonsen” to Kisakata station”象潟駅”. After arrival to Kisakata station”象潟駅”, there is a bus from the station. It takes 35 minuites from Kisakata station”象潟駅” to the bus stop ”象潟病院前” 1km far from the waterfall and its fare is 200 japanese yen.
