Japan forest
Aokigahara
Alpsdake · CC BY-SA 4.0
99% trees around it and 371 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km99%
- wild within 10 km98%
- species recorded371
- Altitude993 m
The forest around
99% trees.
Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.
Trees, ring by ring
- 0–1 km100%
- 1–3 km99%
- 3–6 km87%
- 6–10 km88%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees99%
- Grassland0%
- Water0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up0%
ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.
Who lives here
371 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 99%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 371Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 993 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in May.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-6°61 mm
- Feb-4°71 mm
- Mar-2°115 mm
- Apr4°127 mm
- May9°140 mm
- Jun14°174 mm
- Jul18°209 mm
- Aug19°159 mm
- Sep15°201 mm
- Oct9°193 mm
- Nov3°85 mm
- Dec-3°64 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Aokigahara.
Forest near Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Aokigahara is a forest in Japan, 993 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 99% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
371 species have been recorded around it: 271 plants, 3 fungi, 96 birds and 1 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Vallisneria natans, Dryopteris polylepis and Indian Stargrass.
The best time to walk is in May.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- 本栖湖キャンプ場campsite · 4.0 km · 15 within 10 km
- 本栖びゅーほてるplace to stay · 3.5 km · 38 within 10 km
- Fujikawaguchikonearest town · 4.7 km in a straight line
- Mount Fuji Shizuoka Airport (FSZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 86 km in a straight lineCar hire at HND airport (Tokyo)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The forest and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 2marked trails within 5 km東海自然歩道, 自然探索路
- 1named and notable trees within 6 kmやどり木
- 3shelters and huts within 6 km
- 16viewpoints within 5 km三湖台, 芝桜まつり, パノラマ台 and 13 more
- 6car parks within 3 km
- 15campsites within 10 km本栖湖キャンプ場, 本栖レークサイドキャンプ場, 本栖湖スポーツセンター キャンプサイト and 12 more
- 38places to stay within 10 km本栖びゅーほてる, リゾートペンションもとす, ヴィラ本栖 and 35 more
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- picnic sites within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around Aokigahara.
The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Aokigahara
Japan
- 90Forestyas Score
- 99%Trees
- 98%Wild
- 371Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q615767) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 3,936 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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