Japan volcano
Mount Unzen
You can see 217 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 217 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).
- 217 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 22%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 130Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,446 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 130 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 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-westsets on an open horizon27%
- Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Novwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- 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 Unzen.
Mountain in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Mount Unzen is a volcano in Japan, 1,446 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 217 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 22% of the horizon.
130 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kuju Mountains (1,791 m), 95 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from October to November.
Get there and stay
- 田代原キャンプ場campsite · 4.8 km · 3 within 10 km
- 界 雲仙place to stay · 4.1 km · 42 within 10 km
- Unzennearest town · 4.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in UnzenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Amakusa Airport (AXJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 34 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俵石展望所, 山頂展望所, 妙見駅展望所 and 12 more
- 21named peaks within 5 km国見岳, 普賢岳, 妙見岳 and 18 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 km妙見岳駅, 雲仙ロープウェイ駅
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 8car parks within 3 km
- 5visitor centres within 5 km雲仙お山の情報館・別館, ナショナルパークインフォメーション＆ショップ, 一般社団法人 雲仙温泉観光協会 and 2 more
- 3campsites within 10 km田代原キャンプ場, 白雲の池キャンプ場, みずほの森キャンプ場
- 42places to stay within 10 km界 雲仙, 九州ホテル, 雲仙宮崎旅館 and 39 more
- marked trails 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 Unzen, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 mountains within 25 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.
Mount Unzen
Japan
- 86Viewyas Score
- 217 kmFarthest ridge
- 130Peaks in view
- 1,446 mAltitude
Sakurajima
Japan · 136 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 145 kmFarthest ridge
- 25Peaks in view
- 1,045 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q620860) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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