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Fuji River

128 km from source to mouth · Japan.

JapanJapanFlows into Suruga Bay

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The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

128km

Average flow

63m³/s

Basin

3,990km²

Drop

784m

from 785 m to 1 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

128 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 11 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

785 m1 m
Mount Nokogiriat 785 m0 km
Nirasaki29,483 people33 km
Kai75,313 people39 km
Fuefuki Rivertributary54 km
Kajikazawa14,219 people58 km
Iitomi10,663 people72 km
Nambu7,222 people95 km
Horai Bridge115 km
Suruga Bayat 1 m128 km
050100128 km
  1. 0 kmMount Nokogiriat 785 m
  2. 0 kmFujimi14,485 people
  3. 33 kmNirasaki29,483 people
  4. 39 kmKai75,313 people
  5. 42 kmRyūō43,180 people
  6. 49 kmChūō31,216 people
  7. 54 kmIchikawadaimon14,700 people
  8. 54 kmFuefuki Rivertributary
  9. 56 kmSecond Fujikawa Bridge
  10. 58 kmKajikazawa14,219 people
  11. 69 kmFujikawa Bridge
  12. 72 kmIitomi10,663 people
  13. 95 kmNambu7,222 people
  14. 113 kmTomihara Bridge
  15. 115 kmHorai Bridge
  16. 119 kmShin-Fujigawa Bridge
  17. 124 kmpipeline bridge in Fuji (Shizuoka)
  18. 124 kmFuji243,739 people
  19. 126 kmShinfujikawa Bridge
  20. 127 kmKanbara12,777 people
  21. 128 kmSuruga Bayat 1 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Japan

At the mouth it carries 63 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 40 seconds. It drops from 785 m to 1 m, 6.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,990 km², about the size of CV. 796,000 people live in it. Highest water: from June to July and from September to October; lowest: January. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.

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Where to start

Fuji River, month by month

Highest water: from June to July and from September to October

Lowest water: January. Best months to visit: from April to May, July and from October to November.

20
4°53 mmJan
29
4°70 mmFeb
73
8°119 mmMar
110
13°151 mmApr
120
17°152 mmMay
180
21°233 mmJun
160
25°186 mmJul
150
26°194 mmAug
180
22°222 mmSep
170
16°164 mmOct
100
11°91 mmNov
44
6°60 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 180 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.

Plan the trip

Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car

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The basin

Fuji River: the basin in numbers

3,535 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Free-flowingDams upstream can hold only 1.4% of a year's flow: the river still keeps its natural rhythm.
  • 796,000people live in the basin
  • 225/km²people per km²
  • 991maverage altitude of the basin
  • 1,695mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 9.7°Caverage air temperature
  • 29%protected areas
  • 0.1%covered by lakes
  • 0.0km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 78% Forest
  • 10% Cropland
  • 13% Towns and cities

RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.

Along the river

Fuji River: what you find on the way

  • 4Dams
  • 29Weirs

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Fuji River in our other atlases

What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.

  • 3beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
  • 13mountains at the sourcePeakyas
  • 2islands off the mouthIslandyas

Beaches (3)

At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya

  1. Tagono Ura7.1 km away26.6°C
  2. Fukiageno Hama2.0 km away26.6°C
  3. Kiyomi Gata11 km away26.6°C

Open Coastya ↗

Mountains at the source (13)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Mount Kaikoma14 km away2,967m
  2. Mount Aka14 km away · prominence 1,916 m2,899m
  3. Mount Nokogiri12 km away2,685m
  4. Mount Amida14 km away2,805m
  5. Mount Gongen12 km away2,715m
  6. Mount Naka14 km away2,700m
  7. Mount Amigasa11 km away2,524m
  8. Mount Nyūkasa7.0 km away1,955m

5 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

Islands off the mouth (2)

Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas

  1. Awashima25 km away
  2. Urishima23 km away

Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Fuji River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Fuji River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth10 km across

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.

Photos

Fuji River in pictures

Fuji river Dec 31 2021 01-14-44 PM
Nesnad · CC BY 4.0
Fuji River (river mouth)
Alpsdake · CC BY-SA 4.0
Water reflections of Mount Fuji s2
Alpsdake · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fuji CityOffice
Mocchy · Public domain

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

Tributaries (6)

Also: Fuefuki River, Shiba River, Haya River, Inase River, Tatsuba River, Sano River

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Tama RiverJapanJapan138 km37 m³/s112 km awayArakawa RiverJapanJapan173 km30 m³/s128 km awayNagara RiverJapanJapan166 km120 m³/s174 km awayTone RiverJapanJapan322 km260 m³/s209 km awayLake BiwaJapanJapan63 km57 m³/s233 km awayShinano RiverJapanJapan367 km460 m³/s316 km awayYodo RiverJapanJapan75 km210 m³/s291 km awayAgano RiverJapanJapan210 km450 m³/s316 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q596110) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesCoastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

The family

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