Japan cliff
Sandanbeki
You can see 130 km from here, looking 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 130 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).
- 130 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 31%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 71Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 48 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 71 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 in August.
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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- 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
Sandanbeki.
Cliffs along the coastline of Shirahama, Wakayama
Sandanbeki is a cliff in Japan, 48 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 130 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 31% of the horizon.
71 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Tsurugi (1,955 m), 117 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- とれとれヴィレッジcampsite · 4.0 km · 1 within 10 km
- グランパスinn白浜place to stay · 0.5 km · 65 within 10 km
- Shirahamanearest town · 2.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ShirahamaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nanki Shirahama Airport (SHM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 3 km in a straight lineCar hire at KIX airport (Osaka)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
- 11other viewpoints within 5 km平草原展望台, Sandan Beki, Senjyo Jiki and 8 more
- 1named peaks within 5 km平草原
- 6shelters and huts within 5 km休憩所 and 5 more
- 63car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 km南紀白浜総合観光案内書, 南紀白浜観光協会
- 20restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmとれとれヴィレッジ
- 65places to stay within 10 kmグランパスinn白浜, 湯快リゾート 千畳敷, グランパスSea and 62 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 Sandanbeki, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas9 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.
Sandanbeki
Japan
- 82Viewyas Score
- 130 kmFarthest ridge
- 71Peaks in view
- 48 mAltitude
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- 131 kmFarthest ridge
- 74Peaks in view
- 52 mAltitude
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- 164 kmFarthest ridge
- 144Peaks in view
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11356066) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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