Japan observation deck
Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill
You can see 144 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 144 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).
- 144 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 12%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 135Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 139 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 135 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 June and in September.
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-west22 min before the sea-level sunset8%
- Febwest16 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- Marwest16 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Sepwest20 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Decsouth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset8%
- 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
Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill.
Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill is an observation deck in Japan, 139 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 144 km away, looking north-east.
The sea fills 12% of the horizon.
135 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Yōtei (1,898 m), 52 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to June and in September.
Get there and stay
- Going upticket requiredOfficial site↗
- 西岡青少年キャンプ場campsite · 2.7 km · 9 within 10 km
- 札幌パークホテルplace to stay · 6.2 km · 222 within 10 km
- Sapporonearest town · 8.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SapporoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sapporo Okadama Airport (OKD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight lineCar hire at CTS airport (Sapporo)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札幌台
- 3named peaks within 5 km札幌台, 焼山, 月寒台
- 30shelters and huts within 5 km
- 189car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmSapporo Citizens' Disaster Prevention Center
- 75restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 km西岡青少年キャンプ場, AOYAMAEN, Ken's Camp 吉田農場キャンプ場 and 6 more
- 222places to stay within 10 km札幌パークホテル, ホテルマイステイズプレミア札幌パーク, 札幌 東急REIホテル and 219 more
- 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 Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas33 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls 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.
Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill
Japan
- 78Viewyas Score
- 144 kmFarthest ridge
- 135Peaks in view
- 139 mAltitude
Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium
Japan · 11 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 148 kmFarthest ridge
- 124Peaks in view
- 273 mAltitude
Goryōkaku Tower
Japan · 144 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 17 mAltitude
Taisetsu Observatory
Japan · 146 km
- 51Viewyas Score
- 26 kmFarthest ridge
- 20Peaks in view
- 401 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3348373) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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