Japan observation tower
Beppu Tower
You can see 158 km from here, looking east.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 158 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 158 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 93%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 4%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 26Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 6 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 26 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are in August and from October to November.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Febwest48 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Marwest46 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Aprwest54 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maywest44 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Julwest40 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Augwest42 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Sepwest42 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Octwest42 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Novsouth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Decsouth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Beppu Tower.
Observation tower
Beppu Tower is an observation tower in Japan.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 158 km away, looking east.
26 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Tsurumi (1,374 m), 7 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 93% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August and from October to November.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 09:30-21:30Official site↗
- Onsenyado Hamayu Nagiplace to stay · 0.2 km · 126 within 10 km
- Beppunearest town · 0.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in BeppuBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Oita Airport (OIT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 31 km in a straight lineCar hire at FUK airport (Fukuoka)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 14other viewpoints within 5 kmグローバルタワー, 湯けむり展望台, 国東塔 and 11 more
- 5named peaks within 5 km高崎山, 小鹿山, 船原山 and 2 more
- 7cable car and funicular stations within 5 km岡本製作所別府ラクテンチケーブル線 and 6 more
- 1marked trails within 3 km実相寺中央公園
- 8shelters and huts within 5 kmWind Cave Observation Deck and 7 more
- 1,403car parks within 3 km
- 6visitor centres within 5 kmBeppu, Tourist Hub & Lounge, アルコ・デ・ベップ and 3 more
- 258restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km
- 126places to stay within 10 kmOnsenyado Hamayu Nagi, ＡＰハウス4, 眺望の宿 しおり and 123 more
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Beppu Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas22 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Beppu Tower
Japan
- 74Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- 26Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Mount Unzen
Japan · 127 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 217 kmFarthest ridge
- 130Peaks in view
- 1,446 mAltitude
Kaikyō Yume Tower
Japan · 91 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 16Peaks in view
- 7 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q818646) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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