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Sagiridai

You can see 25 km from here, looking west.

40Viewyas Score

Viewpoint

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 25 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.

40out 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).

  • 25 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 82%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 7Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 703 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 7 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.

Mount Yufu1,584 m · 2.7 km · northMount Tsurumi1,374 m · 5.2 km · north-eastMount Shaka1,231 m · 47 km · westMount Karuto1,034 m · 9.0 km · westMount Fukuma1,236 m · 7.0 km · north-west

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 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.

  1. Jansouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  2. Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  3. Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  4. Aprwest14 min before the sea-level sunset36%
  5. Maywest20 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  6. Junnorth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  7. Julnorth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  8. Augwest16 min before the sea-level sunset37%
  9. Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  10. Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
  11. Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset40%
  12. Decsouth-west10 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

Sagiridai.

Sagiridai is a scenic viewpoint in Japan, 703 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 25 km away, looking west.

7 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Yufu (1,584 m), 3 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 82% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in August and from October to November.

狭霧台駐車場
Koda6029 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for SagiridaiGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near SagiridaiBooking.comSee prices Car hire at FUK airport (Fukuoka)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Sagiridai 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

  • 9other viewpoints within 5 km狭霧台, View point on the roof and 7 more
  • 16named peaks within 5 km鶴見岳, 内山, 白向岳 and 13 more
  • 1cable car and funicular stations within 5 km鶴見山上駅
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 km
  • 52car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 km
  • 58restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 52places to stay within 10 km七色の風, 豊の国, Toyonokuni Lodge and 49 more
  • 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 Sagiridai, and what is near.

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

Peakyas43 mountains within 25 km
Yufu-Tsurumi · 2.5 kmMount Yufu1,584 m · volcano · 2.6 kmMount Tsurumi1,374 m · volcano · 5.3 kmMount Garan1,045 m · volcano · 7.7 kmMount Takasaki628 m · volcano · 13 kmMount Io1,580 m · volcano · 23 kmKuju Mountains1,791 m · volcano · 24 kmMount Kuju1,786 m · 24 km
Islandyasthe island
Kyushu36,782 km²
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Yamashita Ike0.4 km² · 10 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 km
Shiraito Falls · 7.8 kmOtobaru Falls · 8.5 kmFukino Falls · 11 kmHigashishiiya Falls85 m · 11 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.

Panorama view of Yufuin
STA3816 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Sagiridai

Japan

  • 40Viewyas Score
  • 25 kmFarthest ridge
  • 7Peaks in view
  • 703 mAltitude

Beppu Tower

Japan · 12 km

  • 74Viewyas Score
  • 158 kmFarthest ridge
  • 26Peaks in view
  • 6 mAltitude

See the guide

Mount Unzen

Japan · 115 km

  • 86Viewyas Score
  • 217 kmFarthest ridge
  • 130Peaks in view
  • 1,446 mAltitude

See the guide

Kaikyō Yume Tower

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  • 65Viewyas Score
  • 92 kmFarthest ridge
  • 16Peaks in view
  • 7 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q11571767) · 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, Cascadyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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