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Lake Towada
- Area
- 61 km²
- Max depth
- 327 m
- Tonight
- 14°CRain · Wind 15 km/h W
Lake Towada is a lake at 403 m above sea level in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, 61 km² in area and 10.8 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 403 m
- Length
- 10.8 km
- Shoreline
- 54.7 km
Lake Towada 3D map
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Lake Towada topographic map
25 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 Towada elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Towada downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Lake Towada in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 54.7 km
Lake Towada weather
Today · Rain at night · 14 / 16°C (57 / 61°F) · 6.8 mm · Wind 15 km/h W
Lake Towada forecast for about 403 m.
- Today14°16°6.8 mm15 km/h W
- Sun7°15°0.8 mm19 km/h NW
- Mon6°12°0.4 mm16 km/h E
- Tue3°12°6.8 mm31 km/h W
- Wed2°2°3.7 mm28 km/h W
- Thu6°8°0.7 mm13 km/h W
- Fri11°16°5.4 mm21 km/h SW
- Sat3°12°17.5 mm26 km/h W
- Sun4°6°5.2 mm30 km/h W
- Mon1°3°6.0 mm16 km/h W
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Towada
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Towada, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
2.5 km WSW
Nearest campsite
滝ノ沢野営場
Slope
Share of the 12.8 × 12.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 65% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 9.6% of the 164 km² view
- Relief in view
- 664 m low point 351 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 6.4 km of Lake Towada.
Summit list 4
- 1Mt. Ogura690 m 2.3 km ESE
- 2Mount Ohanabe1,011 m 5.1 km N
- 3Gentōgura885 m 5.6 km SW
- 4岩岳880 m 6.3 km WNW
Where Lake Towada sits
- Region
- Aomori Prefecture3Japan153Asia964
- Protected area
- Towada-Hachimantai National Park3
Nearby places
Data sources
- 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 2026-08-04)
- 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)
- 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)