Japan forest
Kasugayama Primeval Forest
ミス テルジ · CC BY 2.1 jp
81% trees around it and 910 species recorded.
- 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, 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.
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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).
- 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.
- Jan-1°66 mm
- Feb-1°80 mm
- Mar2°116 mm
- Apr7°135 mm
- May12°159 mm
- Jun17°213 mm
- Jul21°220 mm
- Aug22°178 mm
- Sep18°225 mm
- Oct12°192 mm
- Nov6°93 mm
- Dec1°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.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- 奈良市青少年野外活動センターcampsite · 7.6 km · 3 within 10 km
- The Deer Park Innplace to stay · 1.4 km · 118 within 10 km
- Nara-shinearest town · 5.3 km in a straight line
- Osaka Itami International Airport (ITM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 40 km in a straight lineCar hire at KIX airport (Osaka)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
- 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
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures 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.
Kasugayama Primeval Forest
Japan
- 72Forestyas Score
- 81%Trees
- 65%Wild
- 910Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5367406) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 13,570 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, Viewyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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