Japan volcano
Mount Asama
You can see 200 km from here, looking south-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 200 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).
- 200 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 178Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,468 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 178 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 from November to February.
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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maywest20 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Julnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon40%
- 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
Mount Asama.
Volcano on the border of Gunma and Nagano prefectures in Japan
Mount Asama is a volcano in Japan, 2,468 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 200 km away, looking south-east.
178 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hotaka Mountains (3,190 m), 79 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from November to February.
Get there and stay
- ライジングフィールド軽井沢campsite · 9.1 km · 1 within 10 km
- 天狗温泉place to stay · 4.0 km · 40 within 10 km
- Miyotanearest town · 7.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MiyotaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport (MMJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 59 km in a straight lineCar hire at TOY airport (Toyama)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
- 5other viewpoints within 5 km
- 8named peaks within 5 km浅間山, 前掛山, 黒斑山 and 5 more
- 4shelters and huts within 5 km登山者避難用シェルター, 火山館 and 2 more
- 1visitor centres within 5 km高峰高原ビジターセンター
- 1campsites within 10 kmライジングフィールド軽井沢
- 40places to stay within 10 km天狗温泉, 高峰高原ホテル, 高峰温泉 and 37 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés 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 Mount Asama, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas36 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Mount Asama
Japan
- 76Viewyas Score
- 200 kmFarthest ridge
- 178Peaks in view
- 2,468 mAltitude
Kanhassyu Miharashidai
Japan · 81 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 189Peaks in view
- 754 mAltitude
Mount Fuji
Japan · 117 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 120Peaks in view
- 3,748 mAltitude
Mount Ontake
Japan · 109 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 240 kmFarthest ridge
- 289Peaks in view
- 3,035 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q242730) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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