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Mount Yari
- Easiest route
- 7.7 km+1,622 m · about 4.5 h · T5
- Prominence
- 452 m1,481 ft
- Isolation
- 5.6 km
- Tonight
- 3°CLight rain · Wind 18 km/h W
Mount Yari is a 3,180 m (10,433 ft) mountain in the Hida Mountains, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,180 m · 10,433 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Hotaka Mountains (3,190 m)
- Range
- Hida Mountains
- Region
- Nagano Prefecture, Japan
- Protected area
- Chūbu-Sangaku National Park
- Coordinates
- 36.3418° N, 137.6474° E
How to get to the top of Mount Yari
3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Road end, 5.6 km SSW of Mount Yari
- Distance
- 7.7 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,622 m−66 m (5,322 ft up)
- Time up
- about 4.5 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 Yari 3D map
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Mount Yari terrain and contours
50 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 Yari weather
Today · Heavy rain · 3 / 5°C (37 / 41°F) · 13.6 mm · Wind 18 km/h W
Mount Yari forecast for the summit, about 3,180 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,517 m.
- Today3°5°13.6 mm18 km/h WBase 13 / 15°
- Sun3°4°20.7 mm17 km/h WBase 13 / 14°
- Mon3°5°13.6 mm8 km/h SEBase 13 / 15°
- Tue-7°3°3.1 mm15 km/h WBase 3 / 13°
- Wed-12°-5°–12 km/h NWBase -2 / 5°
- Thu-6°-2°–8 km/h SWBase 4 / 8°
- Fri-3°1°0.1 mm12 km/h SWBase 7 / 11°
- Sat-8°0°6.7 mm14 km/h WBase 2 / 10°
- Sun-9°-4°–10 km/h WBase 1 / 6°
- Mon-8°-4°2.7 mm18 km/h WBase 2 / 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 Yari
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Yari, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
槍ヶ岳山荘
Nearest campsite
0.2 km SW
Nearest trailhead
笠新道登山口
How steep is the route to Mount Yari?
The easiest mapped route, 7.7 km from 1,546 m to 3,180 m. Steepest stretch: 29°.
- 0–15°5.3 km
- 15–30°2.3 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 90 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 Yari summit.
Summit list 5
- 1Mt. Ohbami3,101 m 0.7 km S
- 2Mount Naka3,084 m 1.3 km S
- 3Doppyo2,899 m 1.5 km NNE
- 4Mount Minami3,033 m 2.6 km S
- 5Mount Nishi2,758 m 2.9 km E
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 55 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Roseroot7
- Arctic Gentian6
- Lingonberry5
- Calthaleaf Avens4
- Rock Ptarmigan3
- Mountain Harebell3
Where Mount Yari sits
- Range
- Japanese Alps12Hida Mountains9
- Region
- Nagano Prefecture18Japan153Asia964
- Protected area
- Chūbu-Sangaku National Park8
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Karasawa Cirque↑5.5 km S
Mount TsubakuroPeak · 2,763 m↑9.3 km NE
Kamikōchi↑11 km S
Mount YakePeak · 2,455 m↑14 km SSW
Mount TatePeak · 3,015 m↑26 km N
More in the Hida Mountains 3
Mount Yari downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
75 m low This 3D map reads 3,105 m at the summit; the official height is 3,180 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 88 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,180 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,105 m | -75 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,092 m | -88 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)
- 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)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia