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Tokyo Tower

You can see 167 km from here, looking north.

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 167 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.

76out of 100

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).

  • 167 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 0%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 236Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 26 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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.

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.

  1. Jansouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  2. Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  3. Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  4. Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  5. Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  7. Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  8. Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset39%
  9. Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  10. Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  11. Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  12. Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset34%
  • 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

Tokyo Tower.

Tower in Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo Tower is an observation tower in Japan, 26 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 167 km away, looking north.

236 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kita (3,193 m), 136 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in August.

Tokyo Tower Shinkoin
Matsujima · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

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.

Tokyo Tower seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 75other viewpoints within 5 km東京シティビュー, テレコムセンター展望室, 東京都庁展望室 北 and 72 more
  • 3named peaks within 5 kmけやき坂, 仙台坂, 愛宕山
  • 16marked trails within 3 km中山道, 歴史と文化の散歩道-1-お堀端コース, 歴史と文化の散歩道 日本橋本所深川コース and 13 more
  • 56shelters and huts within 5 km無料休憩所, 北斎お休み処, 神田駅西口商店街喫煙所 and 53 more
  • 1,059car parks within 3 km
  • 42visitor centres within 5 kmSwitzerland Tourism, 本と街の案内所, JR東日本トラベルサービスセンター and 39 more
  • 3,185restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 km若洲キャンプ場, 第二キャンプ場, オートキャンプ場 and 2 more
  • 1,224places to stay within 10 kmホテルウィングインターナショナル プレミアム東京四谷, Hotel Sumisho, The AGNES and 1,221 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 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 Tokyo Tower, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Mount Atago26 m · 0.7 kmGoten-yama · 4.3 kmMount Hakone45 m · 5.8 kmDōkanyama · 8.4 kmMount Sengen80 m · 22 km
Forestyas10 forests and trees within 15 km
Ginkgo tree of Zenpuku-ji · 1.3 kmCastanopsis sieboldii at the Former Residence of the Hosokawa Family · 2.1 kmInstitute for Nature Study · 3.3 kmShinjuku Gyoen · 4.5 kmHoshi University Medicinal Plant Garden · 6.6 kmKoishikawa Botanical Garden · 6.7 kmYumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome · 7.6 kmOgyō no Matsu · 8.1 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Tokyo Tower and Tokyo Sky Tree 2011 January
Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tokyo Tower at night 7
Kakidai · CC BY-SA 4.0
20101225-tokyotower-tarotokyo
東京太郎 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q183536) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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