Japan observation deck
SHIBUYA SKY
You can see 168 km from here, looking north.
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 168 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).
- 168 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 235Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 26 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 235 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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- 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
SHIBUYA SKY.
Observation deck in Japan
SHIBUYA SKY is an observation deck in Japan, 26 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 168 km away, looking north.
235 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kita (3,193 m), 132 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 10:00-20:00 · ticket requiredOfficial site↗
- デイキャンプコーナーcampsite · 7.9 km · 4 within 10 km
- Yoyogi Youth Hostelplace to stay · 2.2 km · 1,206 within 10 km
- Sakuragaokachōnearest town · 0.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SakuragaokachōBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire at HND airport (Tokyo)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
- 41other viewpoints within 5 km東京シティビュー, Carrot Tower 26F, 東京都庁展望室 北 and 38 more
- 3named peaks within 5 kmけやき坂, 仙台坂, 愛宕山
- 11marked trails within 3 km蛇崩川緑道, 烏山川緑道, 目黒川緑道 and 8 more
- 36shelters and huts within 5 km
- 1,122car parks within 3 km
- 29visitor centres within 5 kmSwitzerland Tourism, フジミ株式会社という看板（月極駐車場）, JR東日本Information and 26 more
- 2,692restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmデイキャンプコーナー, 第二キャンプ場, オートキャンプ場 and 1 more
- 1,206places to stay within 10 kmYoyogi Youth Hostel, Century Southern Tower Hotel, Shinjuku Park Hotel and 1,203 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 SHIBUYA SKY, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas13 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 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.
SHIBUYA SKY
Japan
- 77Viewyas Score
- 168 kmFarthest ridge
- 235Peaks in view
- 26 mAltitude
Daikanransha
Japan · 8 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 170 kmFarthest ridge
- 235Peaks in view
- 13 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q116281743) · 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, Birdyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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