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Nikko NP, Tochigi
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In Oku Randen’s 1890 guidebook to Shiobara, Kaiko Bridge offered a curious puzzle: you could hear the waterfall but not see it until you had passed below and looked back, when it appeared like a crystal curtain.
Completed in 1987, Mikaeri Suspension Bridge spans 100 m across the Hōki River gorge, 30 m above the water. Its deck is just 1 m wide—a surprisingly slender crossing over a deep valley.
The 53-m waterfall just beyond the bridge was said to be so beautiful that departing travelers turned for one last glance. Its viewing platform is only about 10 m past the bridge.
The waterfall beyond the bridge appears in Ozaki Kōyō’s novel The Golden Demon, according to Nasushiobara City. The suspension bridge visitors cross today was built in 1987, long after the novel.
The bridge is the east gateway to the 3.3-km Mikaeri Trail. Around mid-April, several azalea varieties mass-bloom on its ridge; farther along, the route passes asunaro, a cypress relative found only in Japan.
