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Ryūjin Ōtsuribashi and Fukuroda falls

Still reporting about the New Year holidays. On January 4, we went to Ryūjin Ōtsuribashi (竜神大吊橋). At a length of 375m, it's the 2nd longest pedestrian bridge in Japan.

It was actually the longest in Japan until 2006, when it was beaten by Kujū "Yume" Ōtsuribashi (390m). That one even tried getting a Guiness Book entry for the world's longest pedestrian bridge, but it didn't work out.

"Ryūjin" means "god dragon", a mythologic character, and at each end of the bridge there's a large dragon painting.

Looking down... This bridge is located 100m high, below which is the Ryūjin dam.

After that, we headed to Fukuroda waterfalls (袋田の滝) in Daigo, which I had been to two years ago.

Since then they've added an elevator which goes up 44m further in the mountain facing the falls, with decks going up another 7m higher to the same height of the falls! However, because of trees that they leave in the way for nature preservation purposes, the view isn't quite as impressive as from the old tunnel... :) Also, because it's winter, part of the falls was frozen, giving them another look.