Kegon falls and Kurifuri Falls in Nikko, Japan

Kegon Falls is located at Lake Chūzenji in Nikkō National Park near the city of Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. The falls were formed when the Daiya River was rerouted by lava flows.

Kegon Falls Suicides~~In 1903, a 16-year-old Tokyo high school student named Misao Fujimura committed suicide by jumping down the fall. Before he jumped, though, he carved a well-thought out romantic poem into a tree trunk right above the fall. It starts out with the lines:

"How immense the universe is!
How eternal history is!
I wanted to measure the immensity with this puny five-foot body."

Fujimura having been the son of a high-ranking family and a student at the prestigious Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University) with famous writer Natsume Soseki being his English teacher, the press covered the incident in detail. Affected by Fujimura’s mysterious death poem, close to 200 young folks tried to follow his mortal path down the Kegon Falls within the next 10 years. The authorities are still concerned today.

We are all hungry and now Yugie is taking us to a special place to have lunch.  When we reached our destination it was really busy with people.  Keiko went to see if we could eat lunch there and Yes we could.  What a beautiful restaurant, its name is Misty Mountain Restaurant.  There was a big flight of steps going up to the restaurant you would have to be in good health to eat here.

Beautiful view from our table at Misty Mountain.

Time to take a hike to Kirifuri water falls.  It's a beautiful walk to see these falls.  I thought the falls was hard to see due to so many trees blocking the view.

Our house host Yugie.