Japan cliff
Byōbugaura
You can see 89 km from here, looking south-west.
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 89 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).
- 89 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 36%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 16Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 50 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 16 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.
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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maywest16 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Julnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Decsouth-west4 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
Byōbugaura.
Cliffs along the coastline of Chiba prefecture
Byōbugaura is a cliff in Japan, 50 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 89 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 36% of the horizon.
16 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Tomi (349 m), 107 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- 海上キャンプ場campsite · 10 km · 1 within 10 km
- セルフプラスホテル銚子place to stay · 3.3 km · 18 within 10 km
- Hasakinearest town · 4.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HasakiBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Narita International Airport (NRT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 37 km in a straight lineCar hire at NRT airport (Narita)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
- 4other viewpoints within 5 kmはさき丸, 屏風ケ浦 遊歩道, 展望塔 and 1 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 75car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmChoushi Tourist Information Centre
- 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km海上キャンプ場
- 18places to stay within 10 kmセルフプラスホテル銚子, ホテルルートイン銚子駅西, 旅館銚子館 and 15 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
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 Byōbugaura, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Coastya1 beaches within 10 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.
Byōbugaura
Japan
- 75Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 16Peaks in view
- 50 mAltitude
Chiba Port Tower
Japan · 64 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 186 kmFarthest ridge
- 211Peaks in view
- 5 mAltitude
Diamond and Flower Ferris Wheel
Japan · 85 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 173 kmFarthest ridge
- 240Peaks in view
- 9 mAltitude
Kimisarazu Tower
Japan · 85 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 197 kmFarthest ridge
- 164Peaks in view
- 37 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5004737) · 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 | Islandyas, Coastya |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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