{"id":926281,"date":"2026-10-13T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926281\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:52:11","slug":"japanese-tourist-dies-at-millaa-millaa-falls-in-far-north-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926281\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese tourist dies at Millaa Millaa Falls in Far North Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young Japanese tourist has died at a popular waterfall and swimming spot in Far North Queensland.<\/p>\n

Emergency services recovered the 22-year-old man’s body from Millaa Millaa Falls about 5pm on Monday, two hours after they were called to the area, 100 kilometres south-west of Cairns.<\/p>\n

Police said the man was with a group of people at the waterfall when he failed to resurface from the water.<\/p>\n

A report would be prepared for the coroner, police said.<\/p>\n

Millaa Millaa Falls is prominently featured in tourism promotional material and is heavily frequented by visitors during the dry season.<\/p>\n

The falls are on a popular circuit of waterfalls in the southern Atherton Tablelands.<\/p>\n

Andrew Broadbent, who runs a nearby caravan park, said the area had “been a lot quieter” in recent weeks as the peak tourist season had passed.<\/p>\n

Millaa Millaa Falls is widely regarded as one of the safer waterfalls in Far North Queensland, although two men died at the site in July 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s not a high-flow waterfall. It’s just a curtain waterfall straight down into a little pond and it’s quite shallow,” Mr Broadbent said.<\/p>\n

“There are hundreds of people who go swimming there.”<\/p>\n

Mr Broadbent, who moved to the area about 10 months ago from north Brisbane, said conditions in the past fortnight had been “absolutely beautiful [with] no rain”.<\/p>\n

“Prior to that, we’ve had a lot of rain this dry season but, again, it’s not a high-flow waterfall,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Even when it pours down with rain, you can still go swimming in it. It’s not a dangerous waterfall to swim in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Japanese tourist has died at a popular waterfall and swimming spot in Far North Queensland. Emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[493607,493608,31801,43,493606,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-926281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-andrew-broadbent","tag-death-at-waterfall","tag-far-north-queensland","tag-headlines","tag-millaa-millaa-falls","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}