Butsubutsu River

The Butsubutsu River is a second-class river that flows through the Konoshiro district of Nachikatsuura Town, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture. The total length is 13.5 meters (also: 44 ft) and the river width is around 1 meter. With the designation of a second-class river in 2008, it became the shortest river in Japan under the River Law. The rivers known to be short before that were the Honbetsu River, which is the same second-class river and flows through Shimamaki Village, Shimamaki County, Hokkaido, and the Shiono River, which is a quasi-river with a total length of 15 m and flows through Mamurogawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture.

Flows through: Japan.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.