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Mount Usu
- Mapped trail
- 1.6 km+129 m · about 0.5 hEnds 170 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 553 m1,814 ft
- Isolation
- 11 km
- Tonight
- 8°CCloudy · Wind 12 km/h SE
Mount Usu is a 733 m (2,405 ft) active volcano in Hokkaido, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 733 m · 2,405 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Washibetsu (911 m)
- Region
- Hokkaido, Japan
- Protected area
- Shikotsu-Tōya National Park
- Spanish name
- Monte Usu
- Coordinates
- 42.5429° N, 140.8390° E
How to get to the top of Mount Usu
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Road end, 1.3 km SW of Mount Usu
- Distance
- 1.6 kmone way
- Climb
- +129 m−57 m (423 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
The mapped trail ends 170 m below the summit. Above that there is no mapped path: expect glacier, scrambling or open ground, and go with a guide if you have no route-finding experience.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Usu 3D map
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Mount Usu 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.
West → east through the summit
Mount Usu weather
Today · Cloudy · 8 / 11°C (46 / 52°F) · Wind 12 km/h SE
Mount Usu forecast for the summit, about 733 m.
- Today8°11°–12 km/h SE
- Sun4°12°–37 km/h NW
- Mon4°8°–22 km/h NW
- Tue0°8°6.7 mm30 km/h NW
- Wed0°0°1.9 mm40 km/h NW
- Thu4°5°1.5 mm21 km/h E
- Fri7°11°11.8 mm19 km/h SE
- Sat1°9°5.9 mm23 km/h NW
- Sun0°3°1.2 mm33 km/h W
- Mon-2°2°0.4 mm22 km/h NW
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 Usu
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Usu, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
洞爺湖園地
Nearest campsite
湖畔の焚き火場ちゃいはなキャンプ場
How steep is the route to Mount Usu?
The easiest mapped route, 1.7 km from 476 m to 548 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°1.4 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.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3.1 km, measured from the Mount Usu summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Mount Usu-shinzan669 m 0.7 km WNW
- 2Mount Kousu669 m 1.1 km W
- 3東丸山307 m 1.4 km NE
- 4西山543 m 1.9 km WNW
- 5Mount Yosomi252 m 2.0 km N
- 6Shōwa-shinzan398 m 2.1 km E
- 7金比羅山309 m 2.2 km NW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.1 km; 139 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Slaty-backed Gull24
- Common Merganser17
- White Wagtail14
- Large-billed Crow10
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow9
- Red Clover8
Where Mount Usu sits
- Protected area
- Shikotsu-Tōya National Park7
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Mount Usu downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
17 m low This 3D map reads 716 m at the summit; the official height is 733 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 733 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 716 m | -17 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 719 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 2026 (scene 2026-08-11)
- 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, 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)