The Ebisutoge-Fukuda tephra (Plio-Pleistocene boundary, central Japan) has a well-recorded eruptive style, history, magnitude and resedimentation styles, despite the absence of a correlative volcanic edifice. This tephra was ejected by an extremely large-magnitude and complex volcanic eruption producing more than 400 km(3) total volume of volcanic materials (volcanic explosivity index=7), which extended more than 300 km away from the probable eruption centre. Remobilization of these ejecta occurred progressively after the completion of a series of eruptions, resulting in thick resedimented volcaniclastic deposits in spatially separated fluvial basins, more than 100 km from the source. Facies analysis of resedimented volcaniclastic deposits was carried out in distal fluvial basins. The distal tephra (approximate to100-300 km from the source) comprises two different lithofacies, primary pyroclastic-fall deposits and reworked volcaniclastic deposits. The resedimented volcaniclastic succession shows five distinct sedimentary facies, interpreted as debris-flow deposits (facies A), hyperconcentrated flow deposits (facies B), channel-fill deposits (facies C), floodplain deposits with abundant flood-flow deposits (facies D) and floodplain deposits with rare flood deposits (facies E). Resedimented volcaniclastic materials at distal locations originated from unconsolidated deposits of a climactic, large ignimbrite-forming eruption. Factors controlling inter- and intrabasinal facies changes are (1) temporal change of introduced volcaniclastic materials into the basin; (2) proximal-distal relationship; and (3) distribution pattern of pyroclastic-flow deposits relative to drainage basins. Thus, studies of the Ebisutoge-Fukuda tephra have led to a depositional model of volcaniclastic resedimentation in distal areas after extremely large-magnitude eruptions, an aspect of volcaniclastic deposits that has often been ignored or poorly understood.