Japan observation tower
Higashiyama Sky Tower
You can see 138 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 138 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).
- 138 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 174Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 78 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 174 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 April, 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
Higashiyama Sky Tower.
Building in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Higashiyama Sky Tower is an observation tower in Japan, 78 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 138 km away, looking south-west.
174 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hotaka Mountains (3,190 m), 140 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April, in August and from October to November.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- キャンプサイトcampsite · 4.2 km · 2 within 10 km
- Route Innplace to stay · 6.0 km · 215 within 10 km
- Tokugawanearest town · 5.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TokugawaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nagoya Airport / JASDF Komaki Air Base (NKM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at NGO airport (Tokoname)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
- 113other viewpoints within 5 km徳川園, 見晴台 (Miharashi-dai), 揚輝荘 and 110 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmからす山 (Karasu-yama), 御殿山
- 3marked trails within 3 km天満緑道, 東山一万歩コース, 平和公園一万歩コース
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km中央休憩所, タヌキの里休憩所 and 6 more
- 2,615car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 km中央案内所, 正門案内所
- 195restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmキャンプサイト, ウッドデザインパーク瀬戸
- 215places to stay within 10 kmRoute Inn, Nagoya Tokyu Hotel, ホテル キヨシ 名古屋第二 and 212 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Higashiyama Sky Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas6 forests and trees within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Higashiyama Sky Tower
Japan
- 74Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 174Peaks in view
- 78 mAltitude
Yokoyama Viewpoint
Japan · 94 km
- 87Viewyas Score
- 213 kmFarthest ridge
- 71Peaks in view
- 187 mAltitude
Mount Ontake
Japan · 94 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 240 kmFarthest ridge
- 289Peaks in view
- 3,035 mAltitude
Mount Hiei
Japan · 104 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 207Peaks in view
- 846 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5754149) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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