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Mount Tsurugi
- Easiest route
- 7.7 km+1,104 m · about 4 h · T5
- Prominence
- 407 m1,336 ft
- Isolation
- 4.9 km
- Tonight
- 4°CCloudy · Wind 24 km/h S
Mount Tsurugi is a 2,938 m (9,639 ft) mountain in the Tateyama Mountains, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,938 m · 9,639 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Tate (3,015 m)
- Range
- Tateyama Mountains
- Region
- Toyama Prefecture, Japan
- Protected area
- Chūbu-Sangaku National Park
- Coordinates
- 36.6254° N, 137.6193° E
How to get to the top of Mount Tsurugi
3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Road end, 5.8 km SSW of Mount Tsurugi
- Distance
- 7.7 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,104 m−568 m (3,622 ft up)
- Time up
- about 4 h
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
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 Tsurugi 3D map
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Mount Tsurugi 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 Tsurugi weather
Today · Heavy rain · 4 / 7°C (39 / 45°F) · 13.0 mm · Wind 24 km/h S
Mount Tsurugi forecast for the summit, about 2,938 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 761 m.
- Today4°7°13.0 mm24 km/h SBase 17 / 20°
- Sun4°6°21.1 mm17 km/h SWBase 17 / 19°
- Mon4°6°16.0 mm7 km/h SEBase 17 / 19°
- Tue-6°3°22.0 mm13 km/h WBase 7 / 16°
- Wed-13°-7°1.6 mm9 km/h WBase 0 / 6°
- Thu-3°0°–8 km/h SWBase 10 / 13°
- Fri-2°3°2.0 mm12 km/h SWBase 11 / 16°
- Sat-6°1°18.5 mm15 km/h WBase 7 / 14°
- Sun-9°-3°0.1 mm8 km/h WBase 4 / 10°
- Mon-8°-3°12.2 mm14 km/h WBase 5 / 10°
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 Tsurugi
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Tsurugi, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
剣山荘
Nearest campsite
劔沢キャンプサイト
Nearest parking
5.8 km SSW
How steep is the route to Mount Tsurugi?
The easiest mapped route, 7.7 km from 2,433 m to 2,938 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.
- 0–15°5.6 km
- 15–30°2.0 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 80 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 km, measured from the Mount Tsurugi summit.
Summit list 5
- 1Mt. Mae-Tsurugi2,813 m 1.1 km SSW
- 2Mt. Ikenodaira2,561 m 1.7 km NNE
- 3Mt. Tsurugi-Gozen2,777 m 2.7 km SSW
- 4Mt. Sen-nin2,211 m 2.7 km ENE
- 5Mt. Shiro-hage2,388 m 2.8 km N
Where Mount Tsurugi sits
- Range
- Japanese Alps12Hida Mountains9
- Region
- Toyama Prefecture4Japan153Asia964
- Protected area
- Chūbu-Sangaku National Park8
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Mount TatePeak · 3,015 m↑5.5 km S
Kurobe Gorge↑6.1 km ENE
Mount ShiroumaPeak · 2,932 m↑19 km NE
Lake Kizaki764 m↑21 km ESE
Mount TsubakuroPeak · 2,763 m↑26 km SSE
More in the Hida Mountains 3
Mount Tsurugi downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
32 m low This 3D map reads 2,906 m at the summit; the official height is 2,938 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,938 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,906 m | -32 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,969 m | +31 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