Japan cliff
Tindabana
You can see 179 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 179 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).
- 179 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 43%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 135Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 58 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 135 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 July to 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-west22 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- Febwest8 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Maywest4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novwest20 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Decsouth-west26 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- 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
Tindabana.
Tindabana is a cliff in Japan, 58 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 179 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 43% of the horizon.
135 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Taiping Mountain (1,950 m), 148 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- 入福旅館place to stay · 0.6 km · 7 within 10 km
- Yonakuninearest town · 0.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in YonakuniBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Yonaguni Airport (OGN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 2 km in a straight lineCar hire at ISG airport (Ishigaki)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
- 8other viewpoints within 5 kmティンダバナ, アリシ, サンニヌ台展望台 and 5 more
- 4named peaks within 5 kmインビ岳, 与那国岳, 久部良岳 and 1 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 kmインピ岳展望所 東屋, 人面岩展望台, 東崎展望台 and 3 more
- 35car parks within 3 km
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7places to stay within 10 km入福旅館, アイランドホテル与那国, ゲストハウス フィエスタ and 4 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- campsites within 10 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 Tindabana, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Tindabana
Japan
- 84Viewyas Score
- 179 kmFarthest ridge
- 135Peaks in view
- 58 mAltitude
Xueshan
Taiwan · 179 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 219Peaks in view
- 3,864 mAltitude
Chingshui Cliff
Taiwan · 135 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 47Peaks in view
- 190 mAltitude
Yushan Main Peak
Taiwan · 235 km
- 86Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 217Peaks in view
- 3,910 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q18337414) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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