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Mount Bandai
- Easiest route
- 2.7 km+506 m · about 1.5 h
- Prominence
- 943 m3,092 ft
- Isolation
- 15 km
- Tonight
- 7°CLight rain · Wind 15 km/h E
Mount Bandai is a 1,819 m (5,968 ft) stratovolcano in the Ou Mountains, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,819 m · 5,968 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Nakaazuma (1,931 m)
- Range
- Ou Mountains
- Region
- Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
- Protected area
- Bandai-Asahi National Park
- Spanish name
- Monte Bandai
- Coordinates
- 37.6010° N, 140.0724° E
How to get to the top of Mount Bandai
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 1.4 km ESE of Mount Bandai
- Distance
- 2.7 kmone way
- Climb
- +506 m−11 m (1,660 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1.5 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 Bandai 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 7.8 × 7.8 km
Mount Bandai 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 Bandai weather
Today · Light rain · 7 / 9°C (45 / 48°F) · 6.8 mm · Wind 15 km/h E
Mount Bandai forecast for the summit, about 1,819 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 911 m.
- Today7°9°6.8 mm15 km/h EBase 13 / 15°
- Sun6°10°1.1 mm10 km/h WBase 12 / 16°
- Mon5°7°6.3 mm19 km/h EBase 11 / 13°
- Tue0°7°5.2 mm22 km/h NWBase 6 / 13°
- Wed-4°0°0.6 mm30 km/h NWBase 2 / 6°
- Thu0°3°–9 km/h EBase 6 / 9°
- Fri4°8°0.1 mm11 km/h SEBase 10 / 14°
- Sat-1°7°8.7 mm19 km/h WBase 5 / 13°
- Sun-2°2°–25 km/h WBase 4 / 7°
- Mon-2°3°6.5 mm15 km/h WBase 4 / 9°
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 Bandai
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Bandai, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
八方台
Nearest campsite
松原キャンプ場
How steep is the route to Mount Bandai?
The easiest mapped route, 2.7 km from 1,305 m to 1,819 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.
- 0–15°1.8 km
- 15–30°0.9 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 30 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.
Where Mount Bandai sits
- Range
- Ou Mountains7
- Region
- Fukushima Prefecture4Japan153Asia964
- Protected area
- Bandai-Asahi National Park8
Nearby places
Lake Inawashiro514 m↑14 km S
Mount AdataraPeak · 1,728 m↑19 km E
Mount Azuma-kofujiPeak · 1,707 m↑21 km NE
Mount NasuPeak · 1,917 m↑54 km S
OkamaLake · 1,550 m↑68 km NNE
More in the Ou Mountains 4
Mount Bandai downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,810 m at the summit; the official height is 1,819 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,819 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,810 m | -9 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,796 m | -23 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 2025 (scene 2025-11-17)
- 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