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Mount Shirouma
- Easiest route
- 9.5 km+1,263 m · about 4.5 h · T3
- Prominence
- 757 m2,482 ft
- Isolation
- 19 km
- Tonight
- 1°CLight rain · Wind 16 km/h SE
Mount Shirouma is a 2,932 m (9,619 ft) mountain in the Shirouma Mountains, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,932 m · 9,619 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Tsurugi (2,938 m)
- Range
- Shirouma Mountains
- Region
- Toyama Prefecture, Japan
- Protected area
- Chūbu-Sangaku National Park
- Coordinates
- 36.7582° N, 137.7585° E
How to get to the top of Mount Shirouma
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 5.6 km ENE of Mount Shirouma
- Distance
- 9.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,263 m−198 m (4,144 ft up)
- Time up
- about 4.5 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 Shirouma 3D map
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Mount Shirouma 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 Shirouma weather
Today · Heavy sleet · 1 / 3°C (34 / 37°F) · 12.7 mm · Wind 16 km/h SE
Mount Shirouma forecast for the summit, about 2,932 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,430 m.
- Today1°3°12.7 mm16 km/h SEBase 10 / 12°
- Sun2°4°24.7 mm11 km/h SWBase 11 / 14°
- Mon1°3°10.8 mm14 km/h SEBase 11 / 12°
- Tue-6°2°22.4 mm8 km/h NWBase 3 / 11°
- Wed-15°-8°2.1 mm8 km/h NWBase -5 / 1°
- Thu-5°0°–7 km/h SBase 4 / 9°
- Fri-4°3°3.0 mm5 km/h NBase 5 / 12°
- Sat-7°1°22.7 mm5 km/h SWBase 2 / 10°
- Sun-11°-4°0.2 mm7 km/h SBase -1 / 5°
- Mon-9°-4°21.7 mm8 km/h NWBase 0 / 6°
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 Shirouma
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Shirouma, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
白馬山荘
Nearest parking
3.9 km ESE
How steep is the route to Mount Shirouma?
The easiest mapped route, 9.5 km from 1,857 m to 2,932 m. Steepest stretch: 23°.
- 0–15°8.4 km
- 15–30°1.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 100 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 3.5 km, measured from the Mount Shirouma summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Mt. Mikunisakai2,751 m 1.0 km NNE
- 2Mt. Asahi2,867 m 1.1 km W
- 3Mt. Ura-Asahi2,733 m 1.6 km WSW
- 4Mt. Shakushi2,812 m 2.0 km S
- 5Mount Hachi2,563 m 2.6 km NNW
- 6Mount Yari2,903 m 3.0 km S
- 7船越ノ頭2,612 m 3.4 km NE
Where Mount Shirouma sits
- Range
- Japanese Alps12Hida Mountains9
- Region
- Toyama Prefecture4Japan153Asia964
- Protected area
- Chūbu-Sangaku National Park8
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Kurobe Gorge↑14 km SSW
Mount TsurugiPeak · 2,938 m↑20 km SW
Lake Kizaki764 m↑23 km SSE
Mount TatePeak · 3,015 m↑24 km SSW
Mount TogakushiPeak · 1,904 m↑26 km E
More in the Hida Mountains 5
Mount Shirouma downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 2,926 m at the summit; the official height is 2,932 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,932 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,926 m | -6 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,918 m | -14 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 2025-11-30)
- 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