Minoo Falls

photo by 663highland · CC BY 2.5

photo by hajime · CC BY 3.0

The fried maple leaves spend a year in salt before they go into the oil.

From the station you walk 2.7 kilometres along the stream, forty minutes of gentle climbing, and the waterfall drops thirty-three metres. At the start of the path about ten shops fry maple leaves: they keep them in salt for a year, desalt them and dip them in a batter of just flour, water, sugar and sesame. If you come back in the afternoon, you will find some already sold out.

The waterfall is in Meiji no Mori Minoo Quasi-National Park and is one of Japan's hundred selected waterfalls. The name comes from the shape of the falling water, similar to a mino, the farmers’ wicker winnowing basket: it passed from the waterfall to the city. The leaves that are fried are not the red ones but those of the ichigyōji-kaede, thicker and less jagged.

ℹ️ The Takimichi path starts at Minoo Station on the Hankyū Line and is done on foot, 2.7 km each way. It is outdoors and has no ticket. After floods the stretch in front of the waterfall may stay closed, and the park announces it on its website. There are wild monkeys along the path, and they must not be fed.

🚉 Minoh · 32 min walk

Sources: mino-park.jp · mino-park.jp · machitto.jp

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