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Mountain · Chichibu Mountains · Tokyo

Mount Takao

599 m1,966 ft

Easiest route: 0.8 km+143 m · about 0.5 h · T1
Prominence: 117 m382 ft
Isolation: 1.3 km
Tonight: 13°CLight rain · Wind 11 km/h SW

Mount Takao is a 599 m (1,966 ft) mountain in the Chichibu Mountains, Tokyo, Japan.

All facts

Elevation: 599 m · 1,966 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Shiro (670 m)
Range: Chichibu Mountains
Region: Tokyo, Japan
Protected area: Meiji no Mori Takao Quasi-National Park
Spanish name: Monte Takao
Coordinates: 35.6251° N, 139.2435° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Mount Takao

3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end, 0.5 km SSE of Mount Takao

Distance: 0.8 kmone way
Climb: +143 m−13 m (469 ft up)
Time up: about 0.5 h
Difficulty: T1Easy trail, trainers are fine

Mount Takao elevation profile

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Other routes 2

Road end, 0.9 km N of Mount Takao1.4 km · +276 m · about 1 h
T1GPX KML
Road end, 0.8 km WNW of Mount Takao1.1 km · +224 m · about 0.5 h
Grade not mappedGPX KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Mount Takao 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Takao 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.

Index contours every 125 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Mount Takao weather

Today · Rain · 13 / 17°C (55 / 63°F) · 13.4 mm · Wind 11 km/h SW

Mount Takao forecast for the summit, about 599 m.

Today13°17°13.4 mm11 km/h SW
Sun14°22°20.3 mm13 km/h SW
Mon13°15°42.7 mm10 km/h N
Tue12°21°1.3 mm5 km/h E
Wed8°15°0.1 mm10 km/h NE
Thu9°11°0.9 mm6 km/h E
Fri9°16°–6 km/h SW
Sat9°19°–6 km/h E
Sun10°14°0.1 mm7 km/h E
Mon10°14°–5 km/h E

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

Camping & parking near Mount Takao

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Takao, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest campsite
日影沢キャンプ場
1.1 km N · +2 more within 3.1 km
Directions Map
Nearest parking
1.1 km N
+2 more within 1.7 km
Directions Map
Nearest trailhead
3.0 km ESE
+1 more within 3.3 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 8

Place	Distance
日影沢キャンプ場Campsite	1.1 km N
Parking	1.1 km N
Parking	1.7 km NNE
Parking	1.7 km ESE
Trailhead	3.0 km ESE
屋外ステージ広場Campsite	3.1 km ESE
テントサイトCampsite	3.1 km ESE
Trailhead	3.3 km ESE

Slope

How steep is the route to Mount Takao?

The easiest mapped route, 0.8 km from 468 m to 599 m. Steepest stretch: 28°.

0 km · 468 m0.8 km · 599 m

0–15°0.6 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.

Trees 92.7%Built-up 4.6%Water 1.8%Grassland 0.5%

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 Takao summit.

Summit list 8

1Mt Ichigo578 m 1.4 km W
2大洞山536 m 1.7 km SW
3コンピラ山514 m 1.7 km SSW
4中沢山494 m 2.0 km SSW
5Mount Shiro670 m 2.1 km WNW
6入沢山490 m 2.3 km SSE
7Fujimidai612 m 2.6 km N
8泰光寺山474 m 2.7 km SSE

Where it sits

Where Mount Takao sits

Ranked in 1

#2 Treks and hikes in Japan

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Lake Okutama527 m27 km NW

Mount Takao downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGMount Takao satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-09-08.

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GIS & GPS

GPXMount Takao GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 603 m at the summit; the official height is 599 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	599 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	603 m	+4 m
Copernicus GLO-90	599 m	-0 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 2025-09-08)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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

Mount Takao

Easiest route: from Road end, 0.5 km SSE of Mount Takao

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Nearest parking

Nearest trailhead

Data sources