Mount Rausu
- Easiest route
- 6.5 km+1,418 m · about 4 h
- Prominence
- 1,331 m4,368 ft
- Isolation
- 95 km
- Tonight
- 1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 22 km/h W
Mount Rausu is a 1,660 m (5,446 ft) stratovolcano in Hokkaido, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,660 m · 5,446 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Tyatya (1,819 m)
- Region
- Hokkaido, Japan
- Protected area
- Shiretoko National Park
- Coordinates
- 44.0754° N, 145.1224° E
How to get to the top of Mount Rausu
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 4.6 km NW of Mount Rausu
- Distance
- 6.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,418 m(4,652 ft up)
- Time up
- about 4 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Other routes 1
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Rausu 3D map
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Mount Rausu 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 Rausu weather
Today · Partly cloudy · 1 / 6°C (34 / 43°F) · Wind 22 km/h W
Mount Rausu forecast for the summit, about 1,660 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 224 m.
- Today1°6°–22 km/h WBase 9 / 15°
- Sun-4°6°0.3 mm41 km/h NWBase 5 / 14°
- Mon-5°-1°0.8 mm41 km/h NWBase 4 / 7°
- Tue-5°-1°5.2 mm8 km/h SEBase 3 / 8°
- Wed-7°-5°12.0 mm42 km/h WBase 2 / 3°
- Thu-8°-5°0.7 mm23 km/h WBase 0 / 4°
- Fri0°1°12.8 mm19 km/h SEBase 8 / 10°
- Sat-5°7°3.2 mm23 km/h WBase 3 / 16°
- Sun-7°-3°4.2 mm36 km/h WBase 1 / 5°
- Mon-8°-6°2.8 mm33 km/h WBase 1 / 2°
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 Rausu
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Rausu, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
知床峠駐車場
Nearest campsite
羅臼温泉野営場
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| 知床峠駐車場Parking | 2.8 km SSW |
| Parking | 2.9 km WSW |
| Parking | 4.9 km SSE |
| 羅臼温泉野営場Campsite | 5.4 km SSE |
| 知床羅臼野遊びフィールドCampsite | 7.7 km SE |
How steep is the route to Mount Rausu?
The easiest mapped route, 6.5 km from 224 m to 1,660 m. Steepest stretch: 39°.
- 0–15°4.6 km
- 15–30°1.8 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 70 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 4.7 km, measured from the Mount Rausu summit.
Summit list 4
- 1三ツ峰1,509 m 1.3 km NE
- 2Mount Sashirui1,564 m 2.8 km NE
- 3Mount Okkabake1,462 m 3.8 km NNE
- 4天頂山1,046 m 4.5 km SW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4.7 km; 103 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Red Fox11
- Sika Deer8
- Brown Bear6
- Lingonberry6
- Dwarf Siberian pine6
- Slaty-backed Gull5
Where Mount Rausu sits
Nearby places
Mount Rausu downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Print & wall
3D printing & 3D apps
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How accurate is this?
13 m low This 3D map reads 1,647 m at the summit; the official height is 1,660 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,660 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,647 m | -13 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,633 m | -27 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 2025-09-15)
- 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