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Kasugayama Primeval Forest

ミス テルジ · CC BY 2.1 jp

81% trees around it and 910 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestFungi

  • trees within 3 km81%
  • wild within 10 km65%
  • species recorded910
  • Altitude417 m

The forest around

81% 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 79%Grassland 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 14%Trees 59%Grassland 5%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 25%Trees 56%Grassland 4%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 13%Built-up 25%81%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km79%
  • 3–6 km59%
  • 6–10 km56%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees79%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up14%

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

910 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Japanese pieris
Japanese pierisPieris japonica26 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dryopteris erythrosora
Dryopteris erythrosoraDryopteris erythrosora25 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sakaki
SakakiCleyera japonica22 records‘Uncle Carl’ (カールおじさん). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Asian bayberryNT
Asian bayberryNageia nagi21 recordsPhilipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini · Public domain
Ring-cup oak
Ring-cup oakQuercus glauca21 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Polystichum luctuosum
Polystichum luctuosumPolystichum luctuosum21 recordsDaderot · CC0
SugiNT
SugiCryptomeria japonica21 recordsYosemite · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hypolepis punctata
Hypolepis punctataHypolepis punctata20 recordsKeisotyo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Quercus sessilifolia
Quercus sessilifoliaQuercus sessilifolia19 recordsTangopaso · Public domain
Clethra barbinervis
Clethra barbinervisClethra barbinervis18 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Polystichum tripteron
Polystichum tripteronPolystichum tripteron18 recordskeisotyo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eurya
EuryaEurya japonica18 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 81%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 65%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 910Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 417 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan6°-1°66 mm
  2. Feb8°-1°80 mm
  3. Mar12°2°116 mm
  4. Apr18°7°135 mm
  5. May22°12°159 mm
  6. Jun25°17°213 mm
  7. Jul29°21°220 mm
  8. Aug30°22°178 mm
  9. Sep26°18°225 mm
  10. Oct21°12°192 mm
  11. Nov15°6°93 mm
  12. Dec9°1°76 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kasugayama Primeval Forest.

Primeval forest in Nara, Japan

Kasugayama Primeval Forest is a forest in Japan, 417 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 81% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 65% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

910 species have been recorded around it: 661 plants, 129 fungi, 117 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Japanese pieris, Dryopteris erythrosora and Sakaki.

The best time to walk is in April.

Kasugayama Primeval Forest 02
ミス テルジ · CC BY 2.1 jp

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Kasugayama Primeval ForestGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Kasugayama Primeval ForestBooking.comSee prices Car hire at KIX airport (Osaka)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Kasugayama Primeval Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1marked trails within 5 km山の辺の道
  • 62named and notable trees within 6 km中将姫伝説雪責めの松, 右近の橘, 左近の藤 and 59 more
  • 17shelters and huts within 6 km無料休憩スペース, 大原橋休憩舎, 十八丁休憩舎 and 14 more
  • 17viewpoints within 5 km神石「出現石」or「額塚」, 前園, 後園 and 14 more
  • 7visitor centres within 6 km奥村記念館 (Okumura Commemorative Museum), 奈良県外国人観光客交流館（奈良県猿沢イン）, 観光案内処 and 4 more
  • 286car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 km奈良市青少年野外活動センター, Yamahachi Campground, 笠置キャンプ場
  • 118places to stay within 10 kmThe Deer Park Inn, 遊景の宿 平城, ピープルズイン花小路 and 115 more
  • 141restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Kasugayama Primeval Forest.

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.

Peakyas68 mountains within 25 km
Mount Wakakusa342 m · 1.2 kmMount Kaigahira821 m · 16 kmMount Ikoma642 m · 17 kmMount Nukai812 m · 17 kmMount Otowa851 m · 23 kmMount Kyōgazuka889 m · 23 kmKumaga Take904 m · 24 kmMount Saburō879 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Honshu230,426 km²
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 km
Mount Wakakusa342 m · 1.2 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Momonoo Falls9.5 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Japan, Nara - Kasugayama primeval forest 2007 1
Vera46 · CC BY 2.0
Japan, Nara - Kasugayama primeval forest 2011 1
C.K. Tse · CC BY-SA 2.0
Japan, Nara - Kasugayama primeval forest 2011 2
C.K. Tse · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Kasugayama Primeval Forest

Japan

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 81%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 910Species

Nachi Primeval Forest

Japan · 112 km

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 344Species

See the guide

Aokigahara

Japan · 268 km

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 371Species

See the guide

Miho no Matsubara

Japan · 245 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 4%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 162Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5367406) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,570 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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