Japan observation tower
Tsūtenkaku
You can see 166 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 166 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).
- 166 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 0%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 138Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 8 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 138 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 April, 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.
- Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maywest10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- 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
Tsūtenkaku.
Observation tower
Tsūtenkaku is an observation tower in Japan.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 166 km away, looking south-west.
138 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hakkyō (1,915 m), 65 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April, in August and from October to November.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Tsurumi Ryokuchi Campsitecampsite · 8.8 km · 1 within 10 km
- ホテルヒラリーズplace to stay · 1.0 km · 722 within 10 km
- Tsumorinearest town · 2.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in TsumoriBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Osaka Itami International Airport (ITM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 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
- 17other viewpoints within 5 km湊町リバープレイス, ハルカス300, 旧鴻池本店 and 14 more
- 3named peaks within 5 km茶臼山, 昭和山, 丘
- 1marked trails within 3 km暗越奈良街道
- 45shelters and huts within 5 kmまちのえんがわ, 途中休憩所, VIP Villa Namba and 42 more
- 2,536car parks within 3 km
- 9visitor centres within 5 kmInformation Center, OCATツーリストインフォメーションセンター, 総合インフォメーションセンターなんば and 6 more
- 2,177restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmTsurumi Ryokuchi Campsite
- 722places to stay within 10 kmホテルヒラリーズ, グランパスinn大阪, サンプレイン長堀 and 719 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 Tsūtenkaku, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas38 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas6 forests and trees within 15 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.
Tsūtenkaku
Japan
- 76Viewyas Score
- 166 kmFarthest ridge
- 138Peaks in view
- 8 mAltitude
Tempōzan Giant Ferris Wheel
Japan · 7 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 164 kmFarthest ridge
- 144Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1148463) · 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, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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