Japan observation tower
Kyoto Tower
You can see 95 km from here, looking south.
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 95 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).
- 95 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 99Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 38 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 99 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 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-west18 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febwest18 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Maywest14 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Augwest14 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Decsouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- 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
Kyoto Tower.
Observation tower in Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Tower is an observation tower in Japan, 38 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 95 km away, looking south.
99 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hakkyō (1,915 m), 92 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April, in August and in October.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 10:00-21:00 · ticket requiredOfficial site↗
- 大文字山キャンプ場campsite · 5.2 km · 1 within 10 km
- ホテル法華クラブ京都place to stay · 0.0 km · 854 within 10 km
- Kyotonearest town · 3.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KyotoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Osaka Itami International Airport (ITM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 37 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
- 70other viewpoints within 5 km京都タワー, 西から見た二条城東南隅櫓の眺め, 展望所 and 67 more
- 30named peaks within 5 km善気山, 稲荷山, 大文字山 and 27 more
- 10marked trails within 3 kmThe easiest way on top, 中山道(東海道), 京都一周トレイル東山コース F25:F34 and 7 more
- 74shelters and huts within 5 km参拝者休憩所 and 73 more
- 2,842car parks within 3 km
- 14visitor centres within 5 km京都総合観光案内所「京なび」, 定期観光バス案内所, 総合案内所 and 11 more
- 1,978restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km大文字山キャンプ場
- 854places to stay within 10 kmホテル法華クラブ京都, 京都新阪急ホテル, ホテルグランヴィア京都 and 851 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 Kyoto Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas58 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons 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.
Kyoto Tower
Japan
- 64Viewyas Score
- 95 kmFarthest ridge
- 99Peaks in view
- 38 mAltitude
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- 76Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 207Peaks in view
- 846 mAltitude
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- 112Peaks in view
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Redhorse Osaka Wheel
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- 75Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 115Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1201304) · 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, Canyonyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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