Ryusendo Cave area

Iwate Prefecture · Japan

Ryusendo Cave area, Japan
Photo: Ebiebi2, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
year-round
Accessibility
limited
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One of Japan's great limestone caverns, famed for deep underground lakes of extraordinarily clear water lit in blue. Illuminated walkways lead past dripstone formations in the cool interior of the mountain.

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