Japan observation deck
View-O
You can see 82 km from here, looking north-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 82 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).
- 82 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 3%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 89Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 4 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 89 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 December to January.
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 sunset51%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Maywest14 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Augwest12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Sepwest10 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- 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
View-O.
Sluice gate in Port of Numazu, Numazu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan
View-O is an observation deck in Japan.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 82 km away, looking north-west.
89 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Kita (3,193 m), 86 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from December to January.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 10:00-20:00Official site↗
- NUMAZU RIVERSIDE HOTELplace to stay · 1.8 km · 78 within 10 km
- Numazunearest town · 2.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in NumazuBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Oshima Airport (OIM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 57 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
- 6other viewpoints within 5 km香貫山展望台, 見晴台, き☆らら展望台 and 3 more
- 8named peaks within 5 km横山, 徳倉山, 香貫山 and 5 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 km香陵台無料休憩所, パークレット and 4 more
- 166car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km沼津市観光案内所(観光協会)
- 165restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 78places to stay within 10 kmNUMAZU RIVERSIDE HOTEL, 沼津グランドホテル, ココチホテル沼津 and 75 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 View-O, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas67 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
View-O
Japan
- 66Viewyas Score
- 82 kmFarthest ridge
- 89Peaks in view
- 4 mAltitude
Mount Fuji
Japan · 33 km
- 89Viewyas Score
- 249 kmFarthest ridge
- 120Peaks in view
- 3,748 mAltitude
Enoshima Sea Candle
Japan · 62 km
- 85Viewyas Score
- 168 kmFarthest ridge
- 146Peaks in view
- 54 mAltitude
Cosmo Clock 21
Japan · 82 km
- 79Viewyas Score
- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 178Peaks in view
- 7 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11276832) · 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, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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