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Mount Iwate
- Easiest route
- 5.3 km+1,389 m · about 3.5 h
- Prominence
- 1,740 m5,708 ft
- Isolation
- 116 km
- Tonight
- 3°CRain · Wind 11 km/h S
Mount Iwate is a 2,038 m (6,687 ft) volcano in the Ou Mountains, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,038 m · 6,687 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Chōkai (2,236 m)
- Range
- Ou Mountains
- Region
- Iwate Prefecture, Japan
- Protected area
- Towada-Hachimantai National Park
- Spanish name
- Monte Iwate
- Coordinates
- 39.8524° N, 141.0010° E
How to get to the top of Mount Iwate
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from 第一駐車場 (parking)
- Distance
- 5.3 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,389 m(4,557 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3.5 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 Iwate 3D map
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Mount Iwate terrain and contours
100 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 Iwate weather
Today · Rain at night · 3 / 7°C (37 / 45°F) · 14.0 mm · Wind 11 km/h S
Mount Iwate forecast for the summit, about 2,038 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 639 m.
- Today3°7°14.0 mm11 km/h SBase 11 / 14°
- Sun-3°7°2.4 mm11 km/h WBase 6 / 16°
- Mon-3°4°3.1 mm10 km/h EBase 6 / 13°
- Tue-5°3°9.6 mm15 km/h NWBase 4 / 12°
- Wed-7°-6°4.3 mm15 km/h NWBase 2 / 3°
- Thu-5°-1°–13 km/h SBase 3 / 8°
- Fri0°5°3.9 mm9 km/h SWBase 7 / 13°
- Sat-6°3°12.3 mm13 km/h SWBase 3 / 11°
- Sun-6°-3°1.0 mm18 km/h WBase 2 / 6°
- Mon-8°-4°6.2 mm6 km/h NWBase 0 / 4°
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, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Iwate
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Iwate, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
馬返しキャンプ場
Nearest trailhead
3.8 km ESE
Nearest parking
第一駐車場
Nearest caravan site
RVパーク岩手山
How steep is the route to Mount Iwate?
The easiest mapped route, 5.3 km from 639 m to 2,038 m. Steepest stretch: 33°.
- 0–15°3.1 km
- 15–30°2.2 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 60 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 5.5 km, measured from the Mount Iwate summit.
Summit list 7
- 1屏風尾根1,660 m 1.3 km WNW
- 2赤倉岳1,543 m 2.2 km WNW
- 3Kurokura-yama1,570 m 2.9 km W
- 4鞍掛山897 m 4.0 km SSE
- 5Ubakura-yama1,517 m 4.2 km W
- 6Kamakura-mori1,317 m 4.8 km WSW
- 7Inukura-yama1,408 m 4.9 km WSW
Where Mount Iwate sits
- Range
- Ou Mountains7
- Protected area
- Towada-Hachimantai National Park3
Nearby places
HachimantaiPeak · 1,613 m↑17 km NW
Lake Tazawa249 m↑32 km WSW
Lake Towada400 m↑69 km N
Geibikei↑98 km SSE
Mount KurikomaPeak · 1,628 m↑101 km S
More in the Ou Mountains 3
Mount Iwate downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 2,031 m at the summit; the official height is 2,038 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,038 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,031 m | -7 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,023 m | -15 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 2026-08-04)
- 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