Japan volcano
Mount Ontake
You can see 240 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 240 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).
- 240 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 11%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 289Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 3,035 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 289 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 May and from October to November.
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-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Febwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon35%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon21%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Octwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Decsouth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- 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 Ontake.
Mountain in Nagano and Gifu Prefectures, Japan
Mount Ontake is a volcano in Japan, 3,035 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 240 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 11% of the horizon.
289 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hotaka Mountains (3,190 m), 47 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May and from October to November.
Get there and stay
- 開田高原キャンプ場campsite · 7.8 km · 2 within 10 km
- 王滝頂上山荘place to stay · 0.5 km · 14 within 10 km
- Kisonearest town · 20 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in KisoBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport (MMJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 50 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
- 8named peaks within 5 km御嶽山, 三笠山, 継子岳 and 5 more
- 16cable car and funicular stations within 5 km飯森高原 and 15 more
- 2shelters and huts within 5 kmのぞき岩避難小屋
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 km開田高原キャンプ場, おんたけ森きちオートキャンプ場
- 14places to stay within 10 km王滝頂上山荘, 二の池新館, 二の池ヒュッテ and 11 more
- other viewpoints within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- car parks within 3 km
- visitor centres 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 Mount Ontake, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas1 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.
Mount Ontake
Japan
- 81Viewyas Score
- 240 kmFarthest ridge
- 289Peaks in view
- 3,035 mAltitude
Mount Fuji
Japan · 127 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 120Peaks in view
- 3,748 mAltitude
Higashiyama Sky Tower
Japan · 94 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 174Peaks in view
- 78 mAltitude
Mount Asama
Japan · 109 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 200 kmFarthest ridge
- 178Peaks in view
- 2,468 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1754806) · 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, 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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