浄蓮の滝 · Site · Izu, Shizuoka
Jōren Falls
A 25-metre waterfall in the Amagi hills of Izu, with wasabi beds along the stream below and a spider in the pool.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Site
- Prefecture
- Shizuoka · Izu
- Nearest station
- Shuzenji Station (Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line)
- From the station
- Tōkai Bus about 35 minutes to the Jōren-no-taki stop, then five minutes down the steps
- English signage
- none
- Opening hours and admission
- See the official site (external link) · information checked on 2026-11-03
Hours, admission and closing days change, and this site does not list them. The link goes to the place's own page, with the date we last checked it.
What is there
The Hontani river drops twenty-five metres over a wall of columnar basalt at Yugashima, in the hills of central Izu, into a round green pool. Steps lead down from the road through a shaded gorge to the foot of the fall, where the spray reaches the path; wasabi beds, fed by the cold water, run along the stream below, and the shop at the top sells the root fresh and grated. The fall is a stop on the old road over the Amagi pass, and the geopark of the peninsula explains the lava flow that made it.Why here
The record of 1934 is short. A man resting by the pool felt a thread wind around his foot; he moved the thread to the stump of a mulberry tree beside him, and the stump was torn out and dragged into the water. The spider of the fall is told in the article; the pool, the stump’s descendants and the thread-fine spray are all still here.Yokai you will meet
- Jorōgumo 絡新婦 — The pool of the 1934 record: the thread round a resting man's foot and the mulberry stump torn into the water.
Getting there
Shuzenji Station (Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line). Tōkai Bus about 35 minutes to the Jōren-no-taki stop, then five minutes down the steps.
Sources and further reading
- Reliable secondary Jōren Falls (external link) Jōren Falls Tourist Centre The site of the shop and centre at the top of the falls.
- Reliable secondary Jōren Falls geosite (external link) Izu Peninsula Geopark The lava flow and the columnar basalt of the fall; access by bus from Shuzenji.
- Museum The Jorōgumo of Jōren Falls (external link) Izu City Museum Local cultural-history introduction to the spider legend associated with Jōren Falls.