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Mount Kita

3,193 m10,476 ft
Easiest route
5.6 km+1,240 m · about 3.5 h
Prominence
2,239 m7,346 ft
Tonight
3°CCloudy · Wind 17 km/h SW

Mount Kita is a 3,193 m (10,476 ft) mountain in the Akaishi Mountains, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

All facts
Elevation
3,193 m · 10,476 ft
Range
Akaishi Mountains
Region
Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Protected area
Minami Alps National Park
Spanish name
Kitadake
Coordinates
35.6740° N, 138.2390° E
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Route

How to get to the top of Mount Kita

2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end, 3.5 km WNW of Mount Kita

Distance
5.6 kmone way
Climb
+1,240 m−87 m (4,068 ft up)
Time up
about 3.5 h
Difficulty
Grade not mapped
Mount Kita elevation profile
2,2502,5002,7503,00005.6 kmMount Kita, 北岳肩の小屋

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 1
  • Road end, 3.7 km NE of Mount Kita5.1 km · +1,646 m · about 4 h
    Grade not mappedGPXKML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Mount Kita 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 13 × 13 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Mount Kita 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.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Weather

Mount Kita weather

Today · Heavy rain · 3 / 6°C (37 / 43°F) · 7.8 mm · Wind 17 km/h SW

Mount Kita forecast for the summit, about 3,193 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,533 m.

  • Today3°6°7.8 mm17 km/h SWBase 10 / 14°
  • Sun4°6°24.1 mm16 km/h SWBase 12 / 15°
  • Mon3°4°28.6 mm6 km/h SEBase 11 / 12°
  • Tue-4°7°0.9 mm9 km/h WBase 3 / 17°
  • Wed-9°1°–7 km/h NWBase -1 / 10°
  • Thu-3°0°0.4 mm12 km/h SWBase 6 / 10°
  • Fri-2°4°–12 km/h SWBase 5 / 14°
  • Sat-6°3°0.3 mm13 km/h SWBase 1 / 13°
  • Sun-5°1°0.2 mm12 km/h SBase 4 / 10°
  • Mon-7°-1°–12 km/h SWBase 2 / 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

Camping & parking near Mount Kita

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Kita, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest hut

    北岳肩の小屋

    0.6 km N · +2 more within 1.8 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest campsite

    農鳥キャンプ場

    4.8 km S · +2 more within 7.0 km

    DirectionsMap
All mapped places 6
PlaceDistance
北岳肩の小屋Hut0.6 km N
北岳山荘Hut1.2 km SSW
白根御池小屋Hut1.8 km NE
農鳥キャンプ場Campsite4.8 km S
Campsite5.6 km SSW
Campsite7.0 km E
Slope

How steep is the route to Mount Kita?

The easiest mapped route, 5.6 km from 2,012 m to 3,193 m. Steepest stretch: 42°.

0 km · 2,012 m5.6 km · 3,193 m
  • 0–15°3.7 km
  • 15–30°1.4 km
  • 30–45°0.4 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 70 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 90.5%Grassland 8.5%Bare rock / sparse 1.0%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 6.5 km, measured from the Mount Kita summit.

NESW5 km10 km12345
Summit list 5
  1. 1Mount Nakashirane3,055 m 2.0 km SSW
  2. 2Ainodake3,190 m 3.3 km SSW
  3. 3Mount Mibu2,999 m 3.8 km SSW
  4. 4Mount Nishi-Notori3,051 m 5.6 km S
  5. 5Mount Nōtori3,025 m 5.9 km S
Where it sits

Where Mount Kita sits

Range
Japanese Alps12
Region
Yamanashi Prefecture7Japan153Asia964
Ranked in 1
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
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Downloads

Mount Kita downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

17 m low This 3D map reads 3,176 m at the summit; the official height is 3,193 m.Official 3,193 m90 m model 3,160 mThis map 3,176 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 33 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)3,193 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)3,176 m-17 m
Copernicus GLO-903,160 m-33 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 2026-07-23)
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)
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