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Kegon Falls is ranked number one in Japan as the most beautiful waterfall. ,Kegon no Taki are located at Lake Chuzenji in Nikko National Park in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture. It is 97 meters in height making it one of the 3 highest waterfalls in the country. The Kegon Falls are not just beautiful; they are infamous for suicides, especially among Japanese youth.

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Nachi Falls is ranked number two as the most beautiful waterfall in Japan. ,Nachi no Taki is located in Nachikatuura, Wakayama Prefecture. It is one of the most popular waterfalls in the archipelago. It is 133 meters in height and is believed to house a kami called Hiryu Gongen worshiped at Kumano Nachi Taisha.

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Fukuroda Falls or, Fukurodanotaki are wonder-falls located in the town of Daigo in Ibaraki Prefecture, Fukuroda district. It has a height of 120 meters and a width of 73 meters. It is regarded as the 3^rd most beautiful Japanese waterfall.  The waterfalls freeze during winter.

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4.) Hannoki Falls is located in Toyama Prefecture and is the tallest waterfall in Japan with an astounding height of 497 meters. It is not so popular because it only has water from April to July when the snow covering the Midagahara plateau melts. From July to March, its neighbor, Shomyo Falls, is the tallest waterfalls in Japan. Hannoki and Shomyo falls are twin waterfalls.

5.) Shomyo Falls or, Shomyo-daki is located in the town of Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture. It is 350 meters in height with four stages: the first is 70 m, the second is 58 m, the third is 96 m, and the last is 126 m high. The biggest amount of water flows through the falls in the early summer, when the snow covering the Tateyama Mountains melts.

It is regarded as the tallest waterfalls in Japan while its twin waterfalls, the Hannoki Falls, is usually considered the seasonable tallest.

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Nunobiki Falls ,or Nunobiki no Taki is a set of waterfalls located near the downtown Kobe. These waterfalls are of great importance in Japanese art and literature. Nunobiki is considered one of the greatest "divine falls" together with Nachi Falls and Kegon Falls. Nunobiki Waterfalls comprises 4 separate falls: Mendaki, Meotodaki, Ondaki and Tsusumigadaki.

Shindo Falls is an 83 meter or 272 ft tall waterfall in Japan. After rain fall, this waterfall has large volume of falling water.

Lobsters are economically important sea food. These creatures are amongst the most popular and most expensive foods in fine dining. When Lobsters are cooked they are very bright in color. They are either red or orange in color or a combination of red-orange.

But in their natural habitats, some lobster species are amazingly colorful. Check this out!

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Who could have though that lobsters can be as colorful as the lobster on the above photo. This lobster is known as the Common Lobster or European Lobster. This lobster species is abundant in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea.

Brilliantly-colored Common Lobsters are large species reaching a size of 60 cm and could weigh 6 kg. It has conspicuous pair of claws – the right claw is the crusher while the left claw is the cutter. European Lobsters are blue for life with spots and yellow below. It turns red after cooking.

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The Rosy Lobsterette on the above photo is a bright orange colored lobster species. Yes it’s the natural color of the lobster, it is not cook yet. It is also commonly known as Two-toned Lobsterette. It can be found in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea and nearby areas.

Rosy Lobsterettes, a small species that can reach a length of 13 cm, live at depth of up to 1,280 meters.

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The Blue Spiny Lobster is a colorful lobster species that inhabits tropical reefs. It is more commonly known as Painted Rock Lobster. This lobster is unique from all other spiny lobster because it has no claws. This carnivorous creature is nocturnal and highly gregarious. In the daytime they hide in small caves and crevices in reefs or under coral at depths up to 20 m.

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The Southern Rock Lobster is a brightly-colored spiny lobster species that can be found in New Zealand and Australia. This colorful lobster is also commonly known as the Red Rock Lobster or Spiny Rock Lobster. This nocturnal and carnivorous creature lives at depths of up to 275 meters and can attain a length of 23 cm and can weigh as much as 10 kg. This ocean-bottom explorer feeds on crabs, shellfish, sea urchins and small fish.

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The Common Spiny Lobsters is a colorful lobster commonly caught in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean. This lobster with very heavy and spiny antennae can grow up to a length of 60 cm. Other common names of this lobster include European Spiny Lobster, Common Spiny Lobster, Crayfish or Cray, Red Lobster and Mediterranean Lobster.

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The California Spiny Lobster is a brightly-colored spiny lobster species can be found in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean. This nocturnal marine animal can attain a length of up to 30 cm. it inhabits rocky areas at depths of up to 65 m and feeds on clams, worms, mussels and sea urchins. Its coloration is typically reddish-brown with stripes along the legs.

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The Norway Lobster is a slim, orange-pink lobster that is found in the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea. It can be found too in the Adriatic Sea. This lobster, which is also known as Dublin Bay Prawn, grows up to 24 cm in length. This scavenger and predator is also known by other common names such as Scampi and Langoustine.

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The Purple Reef Lobster is a brightly-colored small lobster species that inhabit hard rocky bottoms of tropical waters of the world. They are particularly plentiful in the Japanese waters. They can be found at depths of up to 300 meters. This colorful lobster has stripes, rings, or spots in shades of blue, red, white and orange and becoming popular in the aquarium trade.

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American Lobsters or Northern Lobsters are lobster species that can be found on the Atlantic coast of North America. These nocturnal marine creatures inhabit rocky areas of cold and shallow waters. They feed on mollusks, fish and small crustaceans. It is also known as Atlantic Lobster or Maine Lobster.

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The American Lobster can grow up to 1 meter long and can weigh as much s 20 kg or more, hence they are considered as the heaviest marine crustacean in the world.

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Yellow Lobsters are very rare to find. These lobsters were the result of a rare genetic mutation.

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Like the Yellow American Lobster, the Blue American Lobster is caused by a genetic defect that produces excessive amount of protein. The protein and a red carotenoid molecule known as astaxanthin combine to form a blue complex known as crustacyanin, giving the lobster its blue color.

It is estimated that around 1 in 2–5 million lobsters are blue.

There is a 1 in 10 million chance of catching one lobster alive with red color.

Yellow Lobster is very rare with the odds of finding one at 1 in 30 million.

It is estimated that only about 1 in 100 million lobsters is albino.

One of the rarest lobsters is orange-colored lobster. Such lobster as this is a 1 in 30 million catch.

The chance of finding one is estimated at 1 in 50 million.