Mount Tsurugi
- Easiest route
- 2.4 km+553 m · about 1.5 h · T1
- Prominence
- 1,540 m5,052 ft
- Tonight
- 11°CCloudy · Wind 18 km/h S
Mount Tsurugi is a 1,955 m (6,414 ft) mountain in the Tsurugi Mountains, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,955 m · 6,414 ft
- Range
- Tsurugi Mountains
- Region
- Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
- Protected area
- Tsurugisan Quasi-National Park
- Coordinates
- 33.8543° N, 134.0949° E
How to get to the top of Mount Tsurugi
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from 見ノ越第一駐車場 (parking)
- Distance
- 2.4 kmone way
- Climb
- +553 m(1,814 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1.5 h
- Difficulty
- T1Easy trail, trainers are fine
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
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from 見ノ越第一駐車場. 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 · Cloudy · 11 / 16°C (52 / 61°F) · Wind 18 km/h S
Mount Tsurugi forecast for the summit, about 1,955 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,398 m.
- Today11°16°–18 km/h SBase 14 / 19°
- Sun11°15°52.5 mm15 km/h SWBase 14 / 19°
- Mon10°15°43.2 mm17 km/h SWBase 14 / 18°
- Tue1°9°2.7 mm19 km/h NWBase 4 / 13°
- Wed-3°5°0.2 mm18 km/h NBase 0 / 8°
- Thu4°8°0.6 mm7 km/h SBase 7 / 12°
- Fri4°11°1.1 mm6 km/h NBase 7 / 14°
- Sat-1°10°0.3 mm11 km/h WBase 3 / 14°
- Sun2°7°4.8 mm7 km/h NBase 5 / 10°
- Mon2°3°5.5 mm13 km/h NWBase 5 / 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, 23:18 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
雲海荘
Nearest campsite
0.7 km NNW
Nearest parking
見ノ越第一駐車場
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| 雲海荘Hut | 0.1 km NNE |
| 剣山頂上ヒュッテHut | 0.2 km NE |
| Campsite | 0.7 km NNW |
| 見ノ越第一駐車場Parking | 1.5 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.5 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.5 km NNW |
| 剣山一の森ヒュッテHut | 1.5 km E |
| 奥祖谷二重かずら橋キャンプ場Campsite | 4.5 km W |
| 中尾山高原キャンプ場Campsite | 6.4 km NE |
How steep is the route to Mount Tsurugi?
The easiest mapped route, 2.4 km from 1,398 m to 1,955 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°1.5 km
- 15–30°0.9 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 40 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 5.1 km, measured from the Mount Tsurugi summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Mount Jirōgyū1,930 m 1.5 km SSW
- 2Mount Ichinomori1,880 m 1.5 km E
- 3槍戸山1,825 m 1.9 km SE
- 4Mount Marusasa1,712 m 2.3 km NNW
- 5Mount Maruishi1,684 m 3.1 km WSW
- 6不入山1,653 m 3.5 km SSE
- 7Mount Akaboshi1,612 m 3.8 km NNE
- 8Mt. Shinkuro1,635 m 4.1 km SSW
Where Mount Tsurugi sits
Ranked in 1
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Mount Izumi KatsuragiPeak · 858 m↑135 km ENE
More 1
Mount Tsurugi downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,952 m at the summit; the official height is 1,955 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,955 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,952 m | -3 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,944 m | -11 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 2025-03-23)
- 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
- Official website · Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia