Japan 
In numbers.
102m
Height
34m
Width
Jun–Sep
Best months
1,335m
Elevation
The water at Goraikō Falls, month by month
It roars from June to July and in September.
The fullest months: from June to July and September.
- 25%Jan
- 31%Feb
- 44%Mar
- 54%Apr
- 62%May
- 88%Jun
- 100%Jul
- 74%Aug
- 76%Sep
- 64%Oct
- 44%Nov
- 34%Dec
Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from June to September.
Estimate from rain, snowmelt and evaporation month by month (NASA POWER, 1991–2020) around the falls. Dams upstream can change the real flow.
Goraikō Falls is a waterfall in Japan. The water falls 102 m over a front 34 m wide.
Getting there.
- Shinagawanearest town · 17 km in a straight line
- Parking 2,340 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Matsuyama Airport (MYJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 39 km in a straight lineCar hire at KCZ airport (Nankoku)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From June to Septemberbest months to go (estimate)
Plan your visit
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How big is it?
How big it really is.
Height of the drop from Wikidata. Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.
Seen from the sky.
8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.
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Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.
Around the falls the river drops 401 m in 2.0 km. Here the river runs about 344 m below the lower rim of its valley.
What is around.
- —viewpoints
- —waymarked walking routes
- 1car parks
- —swimming spots
- —picnic sites
- —toilets
- —information boards and visitor centres
- —bus stops within 1 km
- 3other named waterfalls within 4 km高瀑, 霧ヶ迫ノ滝, 夫婦滝
- —caves
- 1campsites面河第一キャンプ場
- 3hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km国民宿舎面河, 国民宿舎石鎚, 石鎚神社頂上山荘
- —restaurants and cafés within 3 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, up to 2 km around the falls (unless noted). A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Towns nearby
- Shinagawa17 km in a straight line
- Saijō19 km in a straight line
- Ikegawa19 km in a straight line
- Tōon21 km in a straight line
- Kuma23 km in a straight line
Weather
The weather, month by month.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afternoon °C | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 23 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
| Night °C | -6 | -5 | -3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 2 | -4 |
| Rain & snow (mm) | 53 | 79 | 112 | 133 | 165 | 248 | 258 | 157 | 204 | 137 | 80 | 72 |
| Wet days | 7 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 8 |
| Sun h/day | 3.9 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 6.9 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (1,335 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.
Recent years
Wet years and dry years
Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A wet season above 100 % usually means a fuller waterfall.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 188% | 87% | 111% | 123% | 90% | 112% | 210% | 12% | 106% | 95% | 72% | 70% |
| 2021 | 123% | 84% | 111% | 102% | 170% | 65% | 93% | 357% | 115% | 29% | 150% | 42% |
| 2022 | 54% | 34% | 108% | 107% | 48% | 49% | 111% | 63% | 126% | 31% | 82% | 43% |
| 2023 | 102% | 60% | 83% | 232% | 223% | 161% | 107% | 127% | 36% | 15% | 72% | 62% |
| 2024 | 69% | 184% | 171% | 137% | 164% | 140% | 99% | 166% | 40% | 155% | 228% | 7% |
| 2025 | 37% | 49% | 148% | 93% | 192% | 123% | 54% | 151% | 151% | 112% | 53% | 54% |
130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual
Compare with the waterfalls nearby.
Goraikō Falls
Japan
- 102 mHeight
- —Average flow
- Jun–SepBest months
About these numbers
| Names, height, width, river | Wikidata (Q11489131) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Climate | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 |
| Relief, river profile, 3D model | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Paths, viewpoints, parking | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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