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Nachi Falls (那智滝, Nachi no Taki) in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, is one of the best-known waterfalls in Japan. With a drop of 133 meters (and 13 meters wide), [1] it is the tallest waterfall with a single uninterrupted drop in Japan (although Japan also disputes Russia's right to Iturup Island, which has the 141 m high Ilya Muromets Waterfall); however, the tallest Japanese ...
Fudōnanae Falls (不動七重滝, Fudōnanae-no-taki) Shimokitayama: 64 Sasa Falls (笹の滝, Sasa-no-taki) Totsukawa: 65 Naka Falls (中の滝, Naka-no-taki) Kamikitayama: 66 Nachi Falls (那智滝, Nachi-no-taki) Wakayama Prefecture: Nachikatsuura: 67 Kuwanoki Falls (桑ノ木の滝, Kuwanoki-no-taki) Shingū: 68 Haso Falls (八草の滝 ...
Wakayama Prefecture (和歌山 県, Wakayama-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. [2]: 1026 Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 944,320 (as of 1 October 2017) and has a geographic area of 4,724 square kilometres (1,824 sq mi).
Kumano Nachi Taisha (熊野那智大社) is a Shinto shrine and part of the UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range of Japan. The Kumano Kodō route connects it to other sites under the same classification, which are primarily located in Wakayama Prefecture , Japan.
In Japan the Nachi Falls are a site of pilgrimage, as are falls near Tirupati, India, and the Saut-d'Eau, Haiti. [43] The Otavalos use Piguchi waterfall as part of the Churru ritual which serves as a coming of age ceremony. [46] Many waterfalls in Africa were places of worship for the native peoples and got their names from gods in the local ...
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The temple was purposely built near Nachi Falls, where it may have previously been a site of nature worship. Seiganto-ji, part of the Kumano Sanzan shrine complex, is one of the few remaining jingū-ji or shrine temples following the forcible separation of Shinto and Buddhism during the Meiji restoration .
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