Mount Rishiri
- Easiest route
- 4.8 km+1,326 m · about 3.5 h · T3
- Isolation
- at least 200 km
- Tonight
- 1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 55 km/h SW
Mount Rishiri is a 1,721 m (5,646 ft) volcano in Hokkaido, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,721 m · 5,646 ft
- Prominence
- 1,721 m · 5,646 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Aibetsu (2,113 m)
- Region
- Hokkaido, Japan
- Protected area
- Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park
- Spanish name
- Monte Rishiri
- Coordinates
- 45.1801° N, 141.2415° E
How to get to the top of Mount Rishiri
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 3.9 km W of Mount Rishiri
- Distance
- 4.8 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,326 m−61 m (4,350 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3.5 h
- Difficulty
- T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Rishiri 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 10.8 × 10.8 km
Mount Rishiri 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 Rishiri weather
Today · Rain showers · 1 / 4°C (34 / 39°F) · 2.1 mm · Wind 55 km/h SW
Mount Rishiri forecast for the summit, about 1,721 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 427 m.
- Today1°4°2.1 mm55 km/h SWBase 9 / 12°
- Sun-3°2°–52 km/h NWBase 5 / 9°
- Mon-3°-1°–33 km/h NWBase 5 / 7°
- Tue-6°0°17.8 mm42 km/h NWBase 1 / 7°
- Wed-7°-6°5.2 mm45 km/h NWBase 0 / 2°
- Thu-6°-5°8.6 mm28 km/h SBase 1 / 3°
- Fri1°3°13.6 mm24 km/h SWBase 8 / 11°
- Sat-8°2°11.0 mm40 km/h WBase 0 / 10°
- Sun-8°-7°4.9 mm47 km/h WBase 0 / 0°
- Mon-9°-7°1.9 mm26 km/h NWBase -1 / 0°
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 Rishiri
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Rishiri, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
5.2 km N
Nearest campsite
沼浦キャンプ場
How steep is the route to Mount Rishiri?
The easiest mapped route, 4.8 km from 427 m to 1,721 m. Steepest stretch: 39°.
- 0–15°2.4 km
- 15–30°2.2 km
- 30–45°0.2 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 5.4 km, measured from the Mount Rishiri summit.
Summit list 6
- 1Mt. Sancho1,461 m 0.7 km W
- 2長官山1,219 m 1.6 km N
- 3Mt. Shopon413 m 4.8 km N
- 4Mt. Oniwakipon411 m 4.9 km SE
- 5Mt. SHinjou302 m 5.0 km S
- 6Mt. Pon444 m 5.1 km NNW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5.4 km; 167 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Bead Lily12
- Japanese Skunk Cabbage11
- Western Lily of the Valley9
- Kamchatka Trillium9
- Weigela middendorffiana9
- Japanese Skimmia7
Where Mount Rishiri sits
Nearby places
Mount Rishiri downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
28 m low This 3D map reads 1,693 m at the summit; the official height is 1,721 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 34 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,721 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,693 m | -28 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,687 m | -34 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 2026-08-02)
- 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
- 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