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Lake Kussharo
- Area
- 79 km²
- Max depth
- 118 m
- Tonight
- 9°CCloudy · Wind 14 km/h SW
Lake Kussharo is a lake at 121 m above sea level in Hokkaido, Japan, 79 km² in area and 14.4 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 121 m
- Length
- 14.4 km
- Shoreline
- 58.3 km
Lake Kussharo in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 58.3 km
Lake Kussharo 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 16.4 × 16.4 km
Lake Kussharo terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Lake Kussharo elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Kussharo weather
Today · Partly cloudy · 9 / 16°C (48 / 61°F) · Wind 14 km/h SW
Lake Kussharo forecast for about 121 m.
- Today9°16°–14 km/h SW
- Sun6°17°–24 km/h NW
- Mon6°12°0.4 mm24 km/h NW
- Tue5°10°2.4 mm10 km/h SE
- Wed3°6°0.3 mm27 km/h W
- Thu4°8°–18 km/h NW
- Fri10°11°10.4 mm18 km/h S
- Sat5°16°0.1 mm12 km/h S
- Sun2°6°0.1 mm24 km/h W
- Mon1°6°–10 km/h NW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Kussharo
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Kussharo, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
RECAMP砂湯
Nearest parking
砂湯駐車場
Nearest caravan site
和琴野営場
Slope
Share of the 16.4 × 16.4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 74% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 5.3% of the 269 km² view
- Relief in view
- 837 m low point 118 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 8.2 km; 163 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Whooper Swan157
- Sika Deer26
- Mallard17
- Common Merganser16
- Eurasian Nuthatch16
- Red Fox15
Where Lake Kussharo sits
- Protected area
- Akan Mashu National Park5
Nearby places
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- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-25)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)