Japan cliff
Oyashirazu
You can see 200 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 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 north-east
- 89%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 22%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 11Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 156 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 11 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 April to May and in August.
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-west68 min before the sea-level sunset9%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west70 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- 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
Oyashirazu.
Toponym
Oyashirazu is a cliff in Japan, 156 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 200 km away, looking north-east.
The sea fills 22% of the horizon.
11 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Yahiko (634 m), 126 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 89% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May and in August.
Get there and stay
- Asahihisuikaigan Auto Camping Ground 朝日ヒスイ海岸オートキャンプ場campsite · 8.3 km · 4 within 10 km
- 親不知観光ホテルplace to stay · 0.2 km · 13 within 10 km
- Asahinearest town · 13 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AsahiBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Toyama Kitokito Airport (TOY)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
- 4named peaks within 5 km尻高山, 入道山, 麻尾山 and 1 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1car parks within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmAsahihisuikaigan Auto Camping Ground 朝日ヒスイ海岸オートキャンプ場, 三峯グリーンランド and 2 more
- 13places to stay within 10 km親不知観光ホテル, Oyashirazu Exchange Center - Marutanbo 親不知交流センター まるたん坊, さざなみ温泉みずしま and 10 more
- other viewpoints within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 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 Oyashirazu, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas28 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Oyashirazu
Japan
- 77Viewyas Score
- 200 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 156 mAltitude
Mount Asama
Japan · 99 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 200 kmFarthest ridge
- 178Peaks in view
- 2,468 mAltitude
Mount Ontake
Japan · 124 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 240 kmFarthest ridge
- 289Peaks in view
- 3,035 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q8015877) · 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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