Mount Kurama
- Mapped trail
- 0.7 km+148 m · about 0.5 hEnds 120 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 30 m100 ft
- Isolation
- 0.3 km
- Tonight
- 16°CCloudy · Wind 22 km/h E
Mount Kurama is a 584 m (1,916 ft) mountain in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 584 m · 1,916 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Sajikigatake (896 m)
- Region
- Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Spanish name
- Monte Kurama
- Coordinates
- 35.1232° N, 135.7715° E
How to get to the top of Mount Kurama
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From 貴船神社 本宮駐車場 (parking)
- Distance
- 0.7 kmone way
- Climb
- +148 m−11 m (486 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
The mapped trail ends 120 m below the summit. Above that there is no mapped path: expect glacier, scrambling or open ground, and go with a guide if you have no route-finding experience.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Kurama 3D map
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Mount Kurama terrain and contours
25 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 Kurama weather
Today · Rain · 16 / 17°C (61 / 63°F) · 2.8 mm · Wind 22 km/h E
Mount Kurama forecast for the summit, about 584 m.
- Today16°17°2.8 mm22 km/h E
- Sun17°18°23.8 mm9 km/h NE
- Mon16°17°62.9 mm24 km/h E
- Tue11°17°0.5 mm19 km/h NW
- Wed5°11°0.1 mm18 km/h N
- Thu10°13°–3 km/h NE
- Fri12°18°–8 km/h S
- Sat8°17°0.8 mm10 km/h NW
- Sun8°14°0.8 mm13 km/h NW
- Mon9°13°0.6 mm14 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 Kurama
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Kurama, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
貴船神社 本宮駐車場
Nearest campsite
静原キャンプ場
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| 貴船神社 本宮駐車場Parking | 0.8 km W |
| Parking | 0.8 km NW |
| Parking | 0.9 km S |
| 静原キャンプ場Campsite | 2.7 km E |
| 京都市百井青少年村キャンプ場Campsite | 5.1 km NNE |
| 花背山の家Campsite | 5.7 km NNE |
How steep is the route to Mount Kurama?
The easiest mapped route, 0.7 km from 326 m to 465 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°0.5 km
- 15–30°0.2 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Mount Kurama summit.
Summit list 3
- 1Mt. Kibune716 m 1.5 km WNW
- 2竜王岳500 m 1.6 km S
- 3Minoura-ga-take432 m 2.9 km SSE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 462 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Japanese Skink63
- Mother-of-thousands37
- Japanese Earth-boring Dung Beetle26
- Calopteryx cornelia25
- Joro Spider25
- Japanese Freshwater Crab19
Where Mount Kurama sits
- Region
- Kyoto Prefecture4Japan153Asia964
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Mount Kurama downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 582 m at the summit; the official height is 584 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 584 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 582 m | -2 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 576 m | -8 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 2026-02-21)
- 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