Japan cliff
Tōjinbō
You can see 112 km from here, looking south-west.
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 112 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).
- 112 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 39%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 17Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 28 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 17 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-west4 min before the sea-level sunset9%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west4 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
Tōjinbō.
Landform
Tōjinbō is a cliff in Japan, 28 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 112 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 39% of the horizon.
17 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Mitake (793 m), 147 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August and in October.
Get there and stay
- オートキャンプ場campsite · 5.3 km · 2 within 10 km
- おおとくplace to stay · 1.2 km · 45 within 10 km
- Mikuninearest town · 3.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MikuniBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base (KMQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 31 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
- 3other viewpoints within 5 km東尋坊, 屋上展望台
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 89car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 km観光案内所, 三國湊まちなか案内所・休憩所, 手荷物預かり所
- 40restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmオートキャンプ場, 十楽の森
- 45places to stay within 10 kmおおとく, 休暇村越前三国, 料理民宿 前田 and 42 more
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails 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 Tōjinbō, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes 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.
Tōjinbō
Japan
- 77Viewyas Score
- 112 kmFarthest ridge
- 17Peaks in view
- 28 mAltitude
Mount Ontake
Japan · 128 km
- 81Viewyas Score
- 240 kmFarthest ridge
- 289Peaks in view
- 3,035 mAltitude
Mount Hiei
Japan · 133 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 216 kmFarthest ridge
- 207Peaks in view
- 846 mAltitude
Higashiyama Sky Tower
Japan · 143 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 174Peaks in view
- 78 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q648937) · 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, Birdyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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