Priests dressed in traditional attire beat wooden boards with willow branches in front of a waterfall in Nachikatsuura in ...

At Koga Falls in the city of Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, the water flowing down the falls has frozen completely again this year ...

Here, centuries-old Japanese cedars and cypress trees tower ... sits the sacred Shirataki Falls. Here, visitors can experience a centuries-old Buddhist ritual called takigyo, or waterfall ...