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Can you see Mount Fuji from Tokyo Skytree?

Yes — you can

105 km line of sight toward the west-southwest (bearing -111°), computed on 30 m Copernicus terrain with Earth curvature and standard atmospheric refraction.

Hokusai painted Fuji looming over Edo two centuries ago. From the Skytree's 450-metre deck, the question is purely geometric: does the sacred volcano still clear every ridge in between?

3D terrain view from Tokyo Skytree toward Mount Fuji
Straight-line distance105 km
Direction-111° west-southwest
Observer eye level464 m
Target elevation3,768 m
Curvature drop at the target759 m
Clearance margin+9 m

From Tokyo Skytree, at an eye level of 464 m (includes the 450 m viewpoint height), the sightline to Mount Fuji runs 105 km and clears every ridge in between. Over that distance Earth's curvature drops the target 759 m below a flat-earth line — but at 3,768 m, it still rises above the horizon. The view is geometrically real: whether you actually get it depends on haze, not terrain. The tightest squeeze is mid-path, where the sightline passes just 9 m above the terrain at km 105.

The line on the map

Satellite map with the sightline from Tokyo Skytree to Mount Fuji drawn in red
The 105 km sightline over satellite imagery, drawn as the great-circle path light would follow.

The terrain profile

-0 m2,000 m4,000 m6,000 m sightlineTokyo SkytreeMount Fuji 0 km105 km255075
Elevation profile from Tokyo Skytree to Mount Fuji. Like every elevation profile, the vertical axis is stretched (≈5× here) — but the geometry is real: mid-path, Earth's surface genuinely stands 218 m above the straight line between the two points (the dashed arc is sea level). Light bends only slightly around that bulge, so whatever it covers stays hidden.
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Frequently asked questions

Can you see Mount Fuji from Tokyo Skytree?

Yes. The terrain-limited line of sight is clear across 105 km, accounting for Earth's curvature and standard atmospheric refraction. Atmospheric haze is the only thing that can hide the view.

How far is Mount Fuji from Tokyo Skytree in a straight line?

105 km great-circle distance, on a bearing of -111° (west-southwest).

How much does Earth's curvature hide over 105 km?

At the target's distance the curvature drop is about 759 m: anything lower than that (relative to the observer's horizon plane) is hidden behind the bulge of the Earth. Mount Fuji is tall enough to rise above it.

How was this calculated?

UpToWhere walks the full terrain profile between the two points on 30 m-resolution Copernicus GLO-30 elevation data, applying Earth curvature and standard atmospheric refraction (k = 0.13) — the same physics surveyors use. You can run the same point-to-point check between any two places on Earth.

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