Mount Atago
- Easiest route
- 2.4 km+269 m · about 1 h
- Prominence
- 63 m206 ft
- Isolation
- 1.9 km
- Tonight
- 14°CCloudy · Wind 23 km/h E
Mount Atago is a 924 m (3,031 ft) mountain in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 924 m · 3,031 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Hōrai (1,174 m)
- Region
- Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Spanish name
- Monte Atago
- Coordinates
- 35.0599° N, 135.6340° E
How to get to the top of Mount Atago
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 1.6 km NNE of Mount Atago
- Distance
- 2.4 kmone way
- Climb
- +269 m−55 m (883 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Atago 3D map
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Mount Atago terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Mount Atago weather
Today · Cloudy · 14 / 16°C (57 / 61°F) · 0.3 mm · Wind 23 km/h E
Mount Atago forecast for the summit, about 924 m.
- Today14°16°0.3 mm23 km/h E
- Sun15°17°19.2 mm10 km/h N
- Mon14°15°54.1 mm24 km/h E
- Tue9°15°0.4 mm23 km/h NW
- Wed2°9°–24 km/h N
- Thu9°12°0.1 mm6 km/h E
- Fri9°17°0.1 mm9 km/h SW
- Sat6°15°1.1 mm13 km/h NW
- Sun5°12°0.9 mm14 km/h NW
- Mon7°11°0.6 mm15 km/h N
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 Mount Atago
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Atago, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
3.1 km SE
Nearest campsite
亀岡市七谷川野外活動センター
How steep is the route to Mount Atago?
The easiest mapped route, 2.4 km from 717 m to 924 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.
- 0–15°1.9 km
- 15–30°0.4 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
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 3 km; 183 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mallard5
- Kajika Frog5
- Chinese Pond Turtle5
- Wrinkled Frog5
- Japanese pond turtle5
- Pond Slider4
Where Mount Atago sits
- Region
- Kyoto Prefecture4Japan153Asia964
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Mount Atago downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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3D printing & 3D apps
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How accurate is this?
10 m high This 3D map reads 934 m at the summit; the official height is 924 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model measures the surface, snow, ice and trees included, and official heights can come from older surveys.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 924 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 934 m | +10 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 931 m | +7 m |
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 2026-08-05)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Accuracy comparison, 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)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia