Japan forest
Takata Matsubara
Yasu ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
39% trees around it and 155 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km39%
- wild within 10 km93%
- species recorded155
The forest around
39% 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 km8%
- 1–3 km43%
- 3–6 km73%
- 6–10 km77%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees43%
- Grassland10%
- Water28%
- Bare ground2%
- Cropland4%
- 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
155 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).
- 39%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 155Speciesrecorded 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.
- Jan0°72 mm
- Feb0°51 mm
- Mar2°92 mm
- Apr6°111 mm
- May10°112 mm
- Jun15°119 mm
- Jul19°173 mm
- Aug21°142 mm
- Sep19°153 mm
- Oct13°160 mm
- Nov8°87 mm
- Dec3°89 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Takata Matsubara.
Pine forest in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan
Takata Matsubara is a forest in Japan.
Seen from space, 39% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
155 species have been recorded around it: 107 plants, 2 fungi, 46 birds and 0 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Eel-grass, Eastern daisy fleabane and White Clover.
The best time to walk is in June.
Get there and walk
- 松峰公民館campsite · 2.6 km · 10 within 10 km
- キャピタルホテル1000place to stay · 1.8 km · 26 within 10 km
- Rikuzen-Takatanearest town · 3.1 km in a straight line
- Iwate Hanamaki Airport (HNA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 63 km in a straight lineCar hire in SendaiDiscover 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
- 5named and notable trees within 6 km奇跡の一本松, SakuraLine311 and 3 more
- 3picnic sites within 4 km
- 4shelters and huts within 6 km
- 5viewpoints within 5 km泥這島, 松島, 大沢漁港 and 2 more
- 46car parks within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 km松峰公民館, 陸前高田自動車学校, 雷神自治会館 and 7 more
- 26places to stay within 10 kmキャピタルホテル1000, 民宿吉田, ホテル三陽 and 23 more
- 12restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- marked trails within 5 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 Takata Matsubara.
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
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Takata Matsubara
Japan
- 57Forestyas Score
- 39%Trees
- 93%Wild
- 155Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q6125832) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 961 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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