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100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan · No. 42

Sanbon Waterfalls 三本滝

Drop 50 m (164 ft)Matsumoto, NaganoChubu region
Sanbon Waterfalls
Sanbon Waterfalls (三本滝)Photo: photo: Qurren ( talk ) Taken with Canon IXY 10S (Digital IXUS 210) — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Drop50 m (164 ft)
Width3 m (10 ft)
LocationMatsumoto, Nagano, Japan
RegionChubu
Selected Waterfalls listNo. 42 of the 100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan (Nihon no Taki Hyakusen, 1990)
Coordinates36.11856° N, 137.59364° E

Sanbon Waterfalls Since it is located at the point of the confluence of the three rivers, the Ono River, the Black Hanzawa, and the unknown, there are three waterfalls side by side, named Sanbon Waterfalls. Nagano name winner. It's called "Change Three Falls," along with Yoichi's Falls and the Great Falls. In Japan, you can also see three waterfalls line up around Toyama, Shōmyō Falls, but they depend on seasons and water volume.

The composition

Out of three waterfalls on the left and left, the one on the left is the smallest. The waterfall in the next center is the second largest. The waterfall on the right is the largest and has a wider range than the other two. In winter, three waterfalls will freeze.

Traffic access

The Alpico traffic bus, the DMV bus, the DMV, the DMV shuttle bus, the DMV shuttle bus. A walk 25 minutes from Sanbon Waterfalls bus stop. It's a walk 25 minutes from Sanbon Waterfalls Parker. In the past, there were roads through the climbway to Sanbon Waterfalls, from the "Below Bridge" in the Berbery district, but typhoons caused cliffs in the fall of 2004, making it impossible to pass through. However, the fallen part is the Sanbon Waterfalls side of the climber's path, so the climb itself can be passed.

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Text adapted from the Japanese Wikipedia article 三本滝, whose full text was translated into English for this guide by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Drop and location facts cross-checked with Wikidata (CC0) and the 100 Selected Waterfalls of Japan list (Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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