Japan volcano
Sakurajima
You can see 145 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 145 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).
- 145 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 31%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 25Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 1,045 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 25 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 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-westsets on an open horizon31%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon33%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon34%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon28%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon17%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon35%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon39%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon46%
- Novwestsets on an open horizon41%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon36%
- 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
Sakurajima.
Volcano and island located in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
Sakurajima is a volcano in Japan, 1,045 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 145 km away, looking south.
The sea fills 31% of the horizon.
25 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Iō (704 m), 94 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August and in October.
Get there and stay
- Café Guest House, Moon Garam Masalaplace to stay · 5.7 km · 48 within 10 km
- Kagoshimanearest town · 10 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KagoshimaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Kagoshima Airport (KOJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 25 km in a straight lineCar hire at KOJ airport (Kagoshima)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
- 7other viewpoints within 5 km湯之平展望所 and 6 more
- 8named peaks within 5 km御岳, 鍋山, 引ノ平 and 5 more
- 29shelters and huts within 5 km
- 4car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmSakurahima International Volcano Sabo Center
- 48places to stay within 10 kmCafé Guest House, Moon Garam Masala, Green Guest House, Hotel Sunflex Kagoshima and 45 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- campsites within 10 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 Sakurajima, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Sakurajima
Japan
- 86Viewyas Score
- 145 kmFarthest ridge
- 25Peaks in view
- 1,045 mAltitude
Mount Unzen
Japan · 136 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 217 kmFarthest ridge
- 130Peaks in view
- 1,446 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q128841) · 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, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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