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Daikanransha

You can see 170 km from here, looking north.

77Viewyas Score

Ferris wheel360°Long viewMany peaks

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 170 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.

77out of 100

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).

  • 170 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 235Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 13 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 235 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.

Mount Tsukuba877 m · 73 km · north-eastMount Atago408 m · 60 km · southMount Tomi349 m · 60 km · southMount Nokogiri329 m · 52 km · southMount Mihara764 m · 106 km · southMount Amagi1,406 m · 111 km · south-westMount Hakone1,438 m · 82 km · south-westMount Ashitaka1,504 m · 100 km · south-westMount Ōyama1,252 m · 54 km · westMount Fuji3,777 m · 100 km · westMount Akaishi3,120 m · 148 km · westMount Takao599 m · 49 km · westMount Kita3,193 m · 140 km · westMount Daibosatsu2,057 m · 86 km · westMount Kinpu2,599 m · 108 km · westMount Kumotori2,017 m · 80 km · westMount Ryōkami1,723 m · 96 km · north-westMount Bukō1,304 m · 72 km · north-westMount Asama2,568 m · 143 km · north-westMount Haruna1,449 m · 125 km · north-westMount Akagi1,828 m · 116 km · north-westMount Sukai2,144 m · 125 km · northMount Nikkō-Shirane2,578 m · 135 km · northMount Nantai2,484 m · 129 km · north

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.

  1. Jansouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  2. Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  3. Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  4. Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  5. Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  7. Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  8. Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  9. Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  10. Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  11. Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  12. Decsouth-west6 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

Daikanransha.

Ferris wheel in Tokyo, Japan

Daikanransha is a Ferris wheel in Japan.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 170 km away, looking north.

235 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kita (3,193 m), 140 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in August.

Palette Town Giant Ferris Wheel
稲妻ノ歯鯨 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for DaikanranshaGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near DaikanranshaBooking.comSee prices Car hire at HND airport (Tokyo)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Daikanransha seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 35other viewpoints within 5 km東京シティビュー, テレコムセンター展望室, 首都圏4000万人の生活と産業を支える東京港 and 32 more
  • 3named peaks within 5 kmけやき坂, 仙台坂, 愛宕山
  • 41shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 184car parks within 3 km
  • 12visitor centres within 5 kmSwitzerland Tourism, JR東日本Information, 伊豆諸島・小笠原・航路案内所 and 9 more
  • 195restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 km若洲キャンプ場, 第二キャンプ場, オートキャンプ場 and 1 more
  • 1,052places to stay within 10 kmHotel Sumisho, Tokyo Sumidagawa Youth Hostel, The AGNES and 1,049 more
  • 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 Daikanransha, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Goten-yama · 4.1 kmMount Atago26 m · 5.2 kmMount Hakone45 m · 11 kmDōkanyama · 12 km
Islandyasthe island
Odaiba6.3 km²
Forestyas10 forests and trees within 15 km
Castanopsis sieboldii at the Former Residence of the Hosokawa Family · 4.6 kmYumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome · 5.0 kmGinkgo tree of Zenpuku-ji · 5.3 kmHoshi University Medicinal Plant Garden · 5.3 kmInstitute for Nature Study · 5.6 kmShinjuku Gyoen · 9.4 kmKoishikawa Botanical Garden · 11 kmOgyō no Matsu · 11 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Tokyo Wild Bird Park178 species · 5.1 kmKasai Marine Park218 species · 7.0 kmIchikawa Yachō no Rakuen157 species · 13 kmYatsu-higata193 species · 21 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Shinjuku Niagara Falls · 11 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Daikanransha
Gzzz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Daikanransha (52506335304)
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0
Odaiba Ferris Wheel
Ryoma35988 ( ja:利用者:Ryoma35988 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q751175) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit