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Mount Fuji

You can see 249 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 249 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.

89out 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).

  • 249 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 50%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 120Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 3,748 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 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.

  1. Jansouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset51%
  2. Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset45%
  3. Marwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  4. Aprwestsets on an open horizon36%
  5. Maynorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon17%
  7. Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  8. Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  9. Sepwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  10. Octwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  11. Novwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset46%
  12. Decsouth-west-4 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

Mount Fuji.

Volcano in Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, Japan

Mount Fuji is a volcano in Japan, 3,748 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 249 km away, looking south-west.

The sea fills 50% of the horizon.

120 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hotaka Mountains (3,190 m), 142 km away.

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

The skies are clearest from December to January.

Kodaki fuji frm shojinko refurb
名古屋太郎, (edited by Hannes_24 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Mount Fuji 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

  • 11other viewpoints within 5 km砂払い五合目「下り」, Okuniwa, 宝永山山頂 and 8 more
  • 12named peaks within 5 km久須志岳, 宝永山, 剣ヶ峰 and 9 more
  • 11marked trails within 3 km須走ルート「下り」, 河口湖ルート「下り」, 河口湖ルート「上り」 and 8 more
  • 3shelters and huts within 5 km緊急避難所
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 3visitor centres within 5 km富士山五合目総合管理センター, 富士山総合指導センター
  • 3campsites within 10 kmPICA表富士, PICA富士ぐりんぱ グリーンエリア, PICA富士ぐりんぱ パークエリア
  • 60places to stay within 10 km頂上富士館, 銀明館, 胸突山荘 and 57 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés 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 Mount Fuji, and what is near.

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

Peakyas58 mountains within 25 km
Mount Fuji · this placeMount Fuji3,777 m · volcano · this placeKengamine Peak3,776 m · this placeHakusan-dake3,730 m · 0.7 kmMount Ashitaka1,504 m · volcano · 17 kmMount Kenashi1,964 m · 18 kmTenshi Mountains1,946 m · 18 kmMount Kuro1,793 m · 21 kmMitsutōge1,785 m · 22 km
Forestyas3 forests and trees within 15 km
Kariyado no Gebazakura · 14 kmHarimomi pure forest in Yamanaka · 15 kmAokigahara · 15 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 km
Fuji Summit Falls · 0.4 kmKaneyama Falls · 13 kmOtodome Falls25 m · 14 kmShiraito Falls20 m · 14 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.

Hasshinpo of Mt.Fuji 40
Σ64 · CC BY 3.0
Mount Ashiwada and Mount Fuji
Alpsdake · CC BY-SA 4.0
Torii near the summit of mount Fuji 2015
Z3144228 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

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  • 120Peaks in view
  • 3,748 mAltitude

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  • 168 kmFarthest ridge
  • 146Peaks in view
  • 54 mAltitude

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View-O

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  • 66Viewyas Score
  • 82 kmFarthest ridge
  • 89Peaks in view
  • 4 mAltitude

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Kanhassyu Miharashidai

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  • 79Viewyas Score
  • 161 kmFarthest ridge
  • 189Peaks in view
  • 754 mAltitude

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q39231) · 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, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Cavernyas, 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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