Hiking through Nishizawa Ravine

[Santa Wally]

Some of the waterfalls remind me of waterfalls in Watkins Glen State Park (Watkins Glen, NY). But Watkins Glen doesn't have the lush foliage. Thanks for posting the photos.

[MacBean]

Some of the waterfalls remind me of waterfalls in Watkins Glen State Park (Watkins Glen, NY). But Watkins Glen doesn't have the lush foliage. Thanks for posting the photos.

and so it should! The thin coating on the earth surface that gives it much of its quality (the vegetation), is very similar between the eastern US and Japan\China - one of the well-known and puzzling phenomena of plant distribution. Maples, pines, rhododendron\azaleas, and I'm sure much else are shared.