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Usui Pass
- Tonight
- 10°CPartly cloudy · Wind 9 km/h E
Usui Pass is a mountain pass at 962 m in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
All facts
- Saddle
- 962 m
- Lowest point
- 561 m / 935 m
Usui Pass 3D map
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Usui Pass topographic map
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Usui Pass elevation profile
West → east through the centre
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Usui Pass: the climb from each side
No mapped road or trail crosses the saddle.
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Usui Pass weather
Today · Heavy rain · 10 / 12°C (50 / 54°F) · 12.1 mm · Wind 9 km/h E
Usui Pass forecast for about 962 m.
- Today10°12°12.1 mm9 km/h E
- Sun11°18°13.7 mm10 km/h W
- Mon11°13°27.3 mm11 km/h NE
- Tue9°18°1.5 mm13 km/h W
- Wed1°12°–16 km/h W
- Thu6°9°–11 km/h E
- Fri7°13°–9 km/h E
- Sat8°17°0.2 mm13 km/h W
- Sun4°11°–12 km/h SE
- Mon6°13°0.3 mm8 km/h W
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, 23:19 UTC.
Slope
Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 13.4% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 919 m low point 465 m
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 4 km of Usui Pass.
Summit list 6
- 1矢ヶ崎山1,184 m 0.8 km S
- 2Mt. Atago1,174 m 3.5 km NNW
- 3一ノ字山1,336 m 3.5 km N
- 4子持山1,107 m 3.6 km NNE
- 5Hanare Yama1,256 m 3.8 km WNW
- 6Mt. Mikasa1,131 m 3.8 km NNW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 284 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- White Wagtail21
- Japanese Serow15
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck13
- Scaly Chanterelle10
- Tufted Duck7
- Asian Vermilion Slender Caesar6
Where Usui Pass sits
- Range
- Kanto Mountains11
- Region
- Nagano Prefecture18Japan153Asia964
- Protected area
- Jōshin'etsu-kōgen National Park6
Nearby places
Mount AsamaPeak · 2,568 m↑14 km WNW
Mount AzumayaPeak · 2,354 m↑31 km NW
Mount Kusatsu-ShiranePeak · 2,160 m↑35 km NNW
Mount OsutakaPeak · 1,639 m↑36 km S
Mount TakamagaharaPeak · 1,979 m↑39 km S
More in the Kanto Mountains 6
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 2026-10-18)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- 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)