Japan observation tower
Kobe Port Tower
You can see 120 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 120 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).
- 120 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 128Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 4 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 128 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Febwest12 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Aprwest16 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maywest18 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Junnorth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Julnorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Augwest18 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest14 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Decsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- 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
Kobe Port Tower.
Observation tower
Kobe Port Tower is an observation tower in Japan.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 120 km away, looking south-west.
128 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hakkyō (1,915 m), 87 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% 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↗
- オートキャンプ場campsite · 7.7 km · 4 within 10 km
- 神戸元町東急REIホテルplace to stay · 0.7 km · 109 within 10 km
- Kobenearest town · 1.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KobeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Kobe Airport (UKB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at KIX airport (Osaka)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
- 26other viewpoints within 5 kmヴィーナスブリッジ, みはらし展望台, テラス and 23 more
- 11named peaks within 5 km再度山, 諏訪山, 菊水山 and 8 more
- 9cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmハーブ園山麓駅, 風の丘中間駅, ハーブ園山頂駅 and 6 more
- 21shelters and huts within 5 km休憩所いっぷく処 and 20 more
- 773car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 km観光案内, 総合インフォメーション, 北野観光案内所
- 1,119restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmオートキャンプ場, テントキャンプ場 and 2 more
- 109places to stay within 10 km神戸元町東急REIホテル, R&Bホテル神戸, KOKO HOTEL 神戸三宮 and 106 more
- 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 Kobe Port Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas44 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls 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.
Kobe Port Tower
Japan
- 71Viewyas Score
- 120 kmFarthest ridge
- 128Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
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- 77Viewyas Score
- 164 kmFarthest ridge
- 144Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Ebisu Tower
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- 77Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 142Peaks in view
- 14 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q798766) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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