D4 Waterfalls over Takayama

Route: Nagano to Okuyama and back
Bicycle: 76 km

Train: 250 km

Average speed:  km/h
Total ascent: 967 m

Riding time: 4:11 h

Weather: Sunny, 10 C

For my last day of this 4 day weekend, I had looked up on Google Maps a bit the region, and found a waterfall in the mountains behind Takayama. Riding up there I came through this very Japanese typical koyo landscape, probably at its peak and with a small river also coloured in brown. 

Probably because the onsen town of Takayama has brownish water... Although I didn't try it. On the village square was this public bathhouse: 

I had lunch here and then further up into the hills to the first waterfall. Which was actually across the valley on the other side and against the light hardly visible. But tall. 

But there were tourist groups coming here by bus. Luckily they didn’t stay very long so there was also time to enjoy the view on my own from a small viewing platform. Originally I wanted to return from here but the guard of the parking lot convinced me that not too far up the road there was a second much better waterfall. 

And yes, that one was much better. Shorter but you could walk under it.