Furepe Waterfall (Furepe-no-taki [フレペの滝])

The Furepe Waterfall (Furepe-no-taki [フレペの滝]) is kind of a percolating spring waterfall that seeps out of the sea cliffs and right into the Sea of Okhotsk. Due to the delicate nature of the falls, the Japanese translation of "furepe" is something like "maiden's tears." Like

The way we experienced the falls was by boat where we could get cleaner frontal views of the falls. The challenge was getting a decent photo with the bobbing of the boat, which made things difficult on Julie's point-and-shoot camera, but even timing it on my faster DLSR was still non-trivial.

The other way of seeing this waterfall, which I regretfully overlooked, was by a short 20-minute walking path that began from right behind the Shiretoko Nature Center on the way to the Shiretoko Go-ko (5 Lakes). That would've yielded more oblique views of the falls but at least it would've provided nice sea cliff context against the Sea of Okhotsk, and we could've enjoyed the scenery with a bit more leisure while breathing the clean air.

For the Nature Walk, the Shiretoko Nature Center was about 5km from Utoro near the intersection of the road going to the Five Lakes and the road heading to the east side of Shiretoko-hanto.

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More distant view of the falls

The road north of Utoro deeper into Shiretoko National Park

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• June 8, 2009

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• Oshinkoshin Waterfall
• Kamuiwakka Waterfall
• Shiretoko Waterfalls

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