I went to Daigo City in Ibaraki prefecture last weekend. The weather was fine and warm, so I wore only T-short. It took for 3 hours by car from Tokyo, and my purposes were falls and Soba.

The most famous fall in Ibaraki is "Fukuroda Fall", which was selected "the best of 100 falls in Japan" before. Its height is 120m and width is 73m. Amazing!!

However my fall at this time was "Tsukimachi Fall", which was also called the "hidden eight views" and "passable fall". You can go behind the fall. If you wanna go there, please ask someone around there, because the fall is completely hidden from a main road. That is the reason why it's called the "hidden eight views". The size (height : 15m / width : 10m) is much smaller than Fukuroda Fall, but it appears attractive and showers lots of negative ion.

The other purpose, a Soba restaurant, was at the same place. Seats of the restaurant faced to the fall, thus I thought the restaurant owned the fall, but it's not. The taste was awesome! I've eaten plenty of Soba in Tokyo and Shinshu, but this Soba was better than ever. My recommendation to you is "Chigiri Soba"as a dessert, which is a Soba dumpling with bean jam and toasted soybean flour. If you like sweets, this can be your favorite.

To be honest this was my second time to visit Tsukimachi Fall. but whenever I go there, I'm sure I love it. Hot springs and ski resorts are close. I wanna build my second house there hopefully.