Sandan-kyo and a Sandan waterfall

Sandan-kyo is located in Akiota-cho, Yamagata-gun, Hiroshima-ken and specified as the special scenic spot of the country on November 14, Showa 28.

Sandan-kyo of the time of autumnal leaves was visited this time. Even if it merely called it Sandan-kyo, the range was very wide and time to see all and turn was not able to be taken. Then, it called at the scenery and 3 Thu waterfalls around the Sandan waterfall made the most famous for Sandan-kyo, and a Hijiri lake (Tarutoko Dam). It seems that it is supposed that the origin of the name of Sandan-kyo is come from a three-step waterfall. Moreover, in another opinion, there is also an opinion of having come to be so called from the place where this scenery resembles Chinese Sankyo. Shibaki of the central part in Hiroshima Prefecture, and the Otagawa origin -- this ravine developed on the riverside is a ravine in which about about 11km of the total extension exists and which is made of rhyolite and a granite. The ravine in this deep Sandan-kyo is made of a phenomenon called the Yagashira erosion in which a river shaves off the upheaved ground and geographical feature retreats. It is said that a waterfall is made into the tip portion currently deleted, and the deep ravine is made while the position of the waterfall itself also continues retreat little by little under the influence of a stream. It is said that it is the waterfall which was able to do the Nidan waterfall, the Sandan waterfall, the Mitu waterfall, etc. in the process in which such a ravine is made, including the Sandan waterfall seen now. The Shibaki river which a Hijiri lake (Tarutoko Dam) is upstream of Sandan-kyo, and is flowing out of here has made this ravine beauty. Although equipped fully with the promenade from the Sandan-kyo station of JR terminal point (the present discontinued line) to the Hijiri lake, you must be in a considerable step. He turned the car to the parking lot of the MIzunashi path-through-a-wood terminal point of Sandan waterfall this side for the time being by car, he walked from here, and it went to the Sandan waterfall this time. An intermediate way is comparatively flat, and its up and down are not so sudden, either, and it is a promenade along which it is easy to walk. Although there was a place narrow in some places, it was not also a degree about which it still cares. A coffee shop and a toilet are the hit called Yoshigahara on the way. He walked about about 20 minutes up to the Sandan waterfall. It returns from there, shows up in a car again, and goes to the Hijiri lake of the Mogami style. If a car is parked in the narrow parking lot of the bank of a Hijiri lake and the slope of steep stone steps is gone down to it about 15 minutes from here, it will come out to the Mitsu waterfall of the Mogami style part. This may be the simplest and most convenient course. Incidentally the altitude of Sandan-kyo of about 450m of vertical drops is about about 790m from there to the Sandan-kyo station (altitude of 341m) in the Hijiri lake of the Mogami style part. It is a thing with still wonderful scenes, such as a Ryumon-Nidan waterfall, Sarutobi, etc. which has not been seen yet by Godai-Sokan in the middle of the promenade, which will want to walk slowly if that is right and there is time. Access to Sandan-kyo will reach in about 20 minutes, if it gets down at the Chugoku Expressway Togouchi interchange and the national highway No. 191 line is gone on the north in the direction of Masuda.

The autumnal leaves of Sandan-kyo	Near Yoshigahara	Sandan waterfal	Sandan waterfal
The autumnal leaves concerning a Sandan waterfall	Ravine beauty of a promenade	The promenade to a Sandan waterfall	The glaringly vivid autumnal leaves along a promenade
The glaringly vivid autumnal leaves near Yoshigahara	On the Hijiri lake lakeside	Hijiri lake (Tarutoko Dam)	The autumnal leaves concerning a Mitsu waterfall
Mitsu waterfall	Autumnal leaves and a green deep pool	The autumnal leaves near Sandan-kyo	Autumn when Japanese pampas grass shakes