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Mount Meakan
- Easiest route
- 3.2 km+776 m · about 2 h · T2
- Prominence
- 1,172 m3,844 ft
- Isolation
- 62 km
- Tonight
- 1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 19 km/h SW
Mount Meakan is a 1,499 m (4,918 ft) stratovolcano in the Akan Volcanic Complex, Hokkaido, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,499 m · 4,918 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Shari (1,547 m)
- Range
- Akan Volcanic Complex
- Region
- Hokkaido, Japan
- Protected area
- Akan Mashu National Park
- Coordinates
- 43.3862° N, 144.0090° E
How to get to the top of Mount Meakan
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 2.3 km WNW of Mount Meakan
- Distance
- 3.2 kmone way
- Climb
- +776 m(2,546 ft up)
- Time up
- about 2 h
- Difficulty
- T2Mountain trail, sure footing needed
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 Meakan 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 8.6 × 8.6 km
Mount Meakan 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 Meakan weather
Today · Cloudy · 1 / 8°C (34 / 46°F) · Wind 19 km/h SW
Mount Meakan forecast for the summit, about 1,499 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 711 m.
- Today1°8°–19 km/h SWBase 6 / 13°
- Sun-4°10°–21 km/h NBase 0 / 15°
- Mon-4°2°0.4 mm22 km/h NWBase 1 / 7°
- Tue-4°2°0.3 mm17 km/h SWBase 0 / 6°
- Wed-7°-4°0.3 mm25 km/h WBase -2 / 1°
- Thu-6°-2°0.3 mm15 km/h SBase -1 / 3°
- Fri2°3°9.0 mm16 km/h SBase 7 / 8°
- Sat-6°7°0.4 mm18 km/h SWBase -1 / 12°
- Sun-7°-4°0.5 mm29 km/h SWBase -2 / 1°
- Mon-9°-4°–20 km/h WBase -4 / 1°
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 Meakan
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Meakan, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
2.3 km WNW
Nearest campsite
オンネトー国設野営場
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 2.3 km WNW |
| Parking | 2.3 km WNW |
| Parking | 2.3 km WNW |
| オンネトー国設野営場Campsite | 2.8 km W |
How steep is the route to Mount Meakan?
The easiest mapped route, 3.2 km from 711 m to 1,499 m. Steepest stretch: 42°.
- 0–15°1.9 km
- 15–30°1.2 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4.3 km; 106 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Ledum Milky Way7
- Canadian bunchberry6
- Sibbaldia miyabei5
- Arachniodes mutica5
- Lingonberry4
- Dwarf Siberian pine4
Where Mount Meakan sits
- Protected area
- Akan Mashu National Park5
Nearby places
Mount Meakan downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
10 m low This 3D map reads 1,489 m at the summit; the official height is 1,499 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,499 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,489 m | -10 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,474 m | -25 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 2026-09-25)
- 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