Chinda Falls (Chinda no Taki) – Kyushu, Oita Prefecture, Bungoono City

Chinda Falls consists of the male fall on the main stream of the Ono River and the female fall on the Hirai River, a tributary. The male fall measures about 100 m across and 20 m high, while the female fall is about 10 m across and 18 m high.
The rocks that form Chinda Falls were deposited by the pyroclastic flows from the great eruption of Mount Aso approximately 90,000 years ago.

The site is also famous because Sesshū, the ink-painting master active during the Muromachi period, visited and painted “Chinda Waterfall.”
Near the falls lie the remains of an old hydroelectric power station built in the Meiji era.

Location: Yata, Onocho, Bungoono City, Oita Prefecture
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