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Nijinomatsubara

ascesis · CC BY-SA 3.0

42% trees around it and 76 species recorded.

53Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km42%
  • wild within 10 km88%
  • species recorded76

The forest around

42% 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 25%Grassland 2%Water 38%Bare ground 1%Cropland 12%Built-up 21%Trees 44%Grassland 2%Water 34%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 15%Trees 52%Grassland 2%Water 30%Bare ground 0%Cropland 5%Built-up 11%Trees 61%Grassland 2%Water 27%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 6%42%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km25%
  • 1–3 km44%
  • 3–6 km52%
  • 6–10 km61%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees44%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water34%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up15%

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

76 species recorded.

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

Microlepia marginata
Microlepia marginataMicrolepia marginata4 recordsharum.koh from Kobe city, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0
Weeping fern
Weeping fernLepisorus thunbergianus2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese creepingfern
Chinese creepingfernOdontosoria chinensis2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pteris semipinnata
Pteris semipinnataPteris semipinnata2 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Pyrrosia lingua
Pyrrosia linguaPyrrosia lingua2 recordsChhe ( talk ) · Public domain
Long-tail spleenwortAsplenium incisum3 records
Spear-leaf selliquea fernSelliguea hastata2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

53out of 100

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

  • 42%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 88%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 76Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in November.

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

  1. Jan9°5°69 mm
  2. Feb10°6°89 mm
  3. Mar13°8°124 mm
  4. Apr17°11°158 mm
  5. May22°16°174 mm
  6. Jun24°19°288 mm
  7. Jul28°24°347 mm
  8. Aug30°25°228 mm
  9. Sep26°22°196 mm
  10. Oct22°17°112 mm
  11. Nov17°12°95 mm
  12. Dec12°7°82 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Nijinomatsubara.

Pine forest in Karatsu, Japan

Nijinomatsubara is a forest in Japan.

Seen from space, 42% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 88% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

76 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 0 fungi, 64 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Microlepia marginata, Weeping fern and Chinese creepingfern.

The best time to walk is in November.

Nijinomatsubara
ascesis · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

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.

Nijinomatsubara 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km川上神社のクスノキ
  • 12shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 9viewpoints within 5 km鏡山展望台 and 8 more
  • 69car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmHIDEAWAY sunset camp, 神集島キャンプ場
  • 21places to stay within 10 kmsea style resort OCEAN, 汐湯凪の音, 国民宿舎 虹の松原ホテル and 18 more
  • 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Nijinomatsubara.

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.

Peakyas37 mountains within 25 km
Mount Uki805 m · 7.1 kmSakurei Zan887 m · 11 kmHagane Yama900 m · 14 kmMount Shiraishi (Saga)794 m · 15 kmMount Ten1,046 m · 16 kmHachiman Dake764 m · 18 kmMount Rai954 m · 18 kmMount Hiko845 m · 19 km
Islandyasthe island
Kyushu36,782 km²
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Yakataishi no Nanatsugama14 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Mikaeri Falls100 m · 8.8 kmKannon Falls45 m · 9.5 kmShiraito Falls14 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.

Stele of Niji Pine Grove in Hamasaki, Hamatama, Karatsu, Saga
そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Niji no Matsubara
muneaki · CC BY-SA 3.0
Matsuuragawa River and Karatsu Castle from platform of Higashi-Karatsu Station 2
そらみみ (Soramimi) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Nijinomatsubara

Japan

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 76Species

Jōmon Sugi

Japan · 346 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 47Species

See the guide

Yeomiji Botanical Garden

South Korea · 336 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 57%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 422Species

See the guide

Gyerim

South Korea · 279 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 113Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5370854) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species559 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, 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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