Japan observation tower
Kaikyō Yume Tower
You can see 92 km from here, looking north-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 92 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).
- 92 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 16Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 7 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 and in October.
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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- 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
Kaikyō Yume Tower.
Kaikyō Yume Tower is an observation tower in Japan.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 92 km away, looking north-east.
16 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Sarakura (622 m), 17 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August and in October.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- 矢筈山キャンプ場campsite · 4.4 km · 1 within 10 km
- グリーンホテルplace to stay · 0.3 km · 60 within 10 km
- Shimonosekinearest town · 0.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ShimonosekiBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Kitakyushu Airport (KKJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 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
- 15other viewpoints within 5 km海峡ゆめタワー, 門司港レトロハイマート展望室, 戦場ヶ原公園展望台 and 12 more
- 10named peaks within 5 km茶臼山, 大唐櫃山, 古城山 and 7 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 km壇ノ浦駅, 火の山駅
- 2marked trails within 3 km観潮コース, 史跡めぐりコース
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 63car parks within 3 km
- 50restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km矢筈山キャンプ場
- 60places to stay within 10 kmグリーンホテル, ヴィアイン下関, スマイルホテル下関 and 57 more
- visitor centres 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 Kaikyō Yume Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas63 mountains within 25 km
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 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.
Kaikyō Yume Tower
Japan
- 65Viewyas Score
- 92 kmFarthest ridge
- 16Peaks in view
- 7 mAltitude
Mount Unzen
Japan · 145 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 217 kmFarthest ridge
- 130Peaks in view
- 1,446 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q100965041) · 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, Coastya, Forestyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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