Japan protected forest
Kōsetsu-en
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32% trees around it and 178 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km32%
- wild within 10 km75%
- species recorded178
The forest around
32% 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 km38%
- 1–3 km31%
- 3–6 km36%
- 6–10 km42%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees31%
- Grassland5%
- Water5%
- Bare ground1%
- Cropland13%
- Built-up46%
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
178 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NTOpen 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).
- 32%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 75%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 178Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
When to walk
Best for walking in June.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-4°82 mm
- Feb-4°69 mm
- Mar-2°68 mm
- Apr2°74 mm
- May7°85 mm
- Jun12°85 mm
- Jul16°129 mm
- Aug19°151 mm
- Sep16°130 mm
- Oct10°105 mm
- Nov3°116 mm
- Dec-2°107 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Kōsetsu-en.
Kōsetsu-en is a protected forest in Japan.
Seen from space, 32% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 75% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
178 species have been recorded around it: 34 plants, 1 fungi, 141 birds and 2 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Polystichum tripteron, White Clover and Sensitive fern.
The best time to walk is in June.
Get there and walk
- すずらんヶ丘キャンプ場campsite · 1.9 km · 3 within 10 km
- 大黒屋旅館place to stay · 1.7 km · 90 within 10 km
- Hakodatenearest town · 5.8 km in a straight line
- Hakodate Airport (HKD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 3 km in a straight lineCar hire at AOJ airport (Aomori)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
- 6shelters and huts within 6 km美原町会館指定避難所 and 5 more
- 2viewpoints within 5 km湯の川温泉足湯「湯巡り舞台」, 五稜郭タワー
- 154car parks within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmすずらんヶ丘キャンプ場, JUNファームキャンプ場, 白石公園 はこだて オートキャンプ場
- 90places to stay within 10 km大黒屋旅館, ホテル湯の川, ホテル法華クラブ函館 and 87 more
- 15restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- marked trails within 5 km
- named and notable trees within 6 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 Kōsetsu-en.
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.
Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures 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.
Kōsetsu-en
Japan
- 51Forestyas Score
- 32%Trees
- 75%Wild
- 178Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q6455283) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 5,290 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, Coastya, Viewyas, Birdyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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