Japan observation tower
Enoshima Sea Candle
You can see 168 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 168 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).
- 168 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 16%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 146Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 54 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 146 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 December to January.
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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maywest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Octwest10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- 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
Enoshima Sea Candle.
Lighthouse in Japan
Enoshima Sea Candle is an observation tower in Japan, 54 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 168 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 16% of the horizon.
146 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Shiomi (3,047 m), 121 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from December to January.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- 茅ヶ崎市柳島 キャンプ場campsite · 9.3 km · 1 within 10 km
- ほてる彩夏place to stay · 1.2 km · 74 within 10 km
- Fujisawanearest town · 5.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in FujisawaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 39 km in a straight lineCar hire at HND airport (Tokyo)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
- 27other viewpoints within 5 kmさざえ島, ルーフテラス, 相模湾眺望 and 24 more
- 4named peaks within 5 km峯山, うさぎ山, 弘法ヶ嶽 and 1 more
- 3marked trails within 3 km関東ふれあいの道 - 神奈川6 - 湘南海岸・砂浜のみち, 関東ふれあいの道 - 神奈川5 - 稲村ケ崎・磯づたいのみち, 引地川緑道
- 3shelters and huts within 5 kmあづまや
- 68car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 km江の島観光案内所, 藤沢市片瀬江の島 観光案内所, 藤沢市観光センター・観光案内所 and 1 more
- 113restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km茅ヶ崎市柳島 キャンプ場
- 74places to stay within 10 kmほてる彩夏, 相鉄フレッサイン藤沢南口, 東横イン and 71 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 Enoshima Sea Candle, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Enoshima Sea Candle
Japan
- 85Viewyas Score
- 168 kmFarthest ridge
- 146Peaks in view
- 54 mAltitude
Yokohama Marine Tower
Japan · 22 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 168 kmFarthest ridge
- 166Peaks in view
- 11 mAltitude
Cosmo Clock 21
Japan · 23 km
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- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 178Peaks in view
- 7 mAltitude
Yokohama Skywalk
Japan · 25 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 170 kmFarthest ridge
- 186Peaks in view
- 0 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11550565) · 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, Coastya, Forestyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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