Temple of Nachi Falls
is really Seiganto-ji pagoda and Nachi Falls, Nachikatsuura, Wakayama
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
The big red pagoda with the waterfall behind it, laid out so you can drive right up and photograph it from the car. There is an XP bonus board hidden behind the waterfall.
The real place
Nachi Falls drops 133 metres in one fall, the highest single drop in Japan. The three-storey pagoda of Seiganto-ji stands beside Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine, part of the UNESCO-listed pilgrimage routes of the Kii Mountains.
Visiting
Climb the old Daimonzaka stone stairway through the cedars to reach the shrine, then walk down to the base of the falls. The classic photo of the pagoda with the falls behind it is taken from the grounds of Seiganto-ji, just above the pagoda.
Nachi Falls is also in Assassin's Creed Shadows. See all 2 games side by side
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