River
Yodo River
75 km from source to mouth · Japan.
JapanFlows into Osaka Bay
In numbers
Length
75km
Average flow
210m³/s
Basin
8,240km²
Drop
83m
from 79 m to -4 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
75 km of river and 37 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmLake Biwaat 79 m
- 9 kmOtsu342,607 people
- 11 kmLake Biwa673 km²
- 11 kmSetagawa Bridge
- 11 kmSeta no Karahashi
- 13 kmIshiyama-dera Temple
- 15 kmSeta River Overflow Weir
- 16 kmSetagawa Reiwa Bridge
- 16 kmDaido Rivertributary
- 32 kmUji Shrine
- 32 kmAsagiri Bridge
- 32 kmByōdō-in Temple
- 33 kmUji192,925 people
- 33 kmUji bridge
- 36 kmKyoto1,463,723 people
- 41 kmKamo Rivertributary
- 43 kmKōtari80,608 people
- 44 kmGokō Bridge
- 46 kmOyamazaki15,953 people
- 47 kmYawata71,656 people
- 48 kmMinase30,927 people
- 48 kmKatsura Rivertributary
- 48 kmKizu Rivertributary
- 53 kmTakatsuki347,496 people
- 55 kmHirakata396,694 people
- 56 kmHirakata Bridge
- 61 kmSettsu87,456 people
- 66 kmKadoma131,727 people
- 67 kmMoriguchi143,096 people
- 70 kmYodogawa Bridge
- 72 kmNagara Bridge, Osaka
- 73 kmKami-Yodogawa Bridge
- 74 kmOsaka2,753,862 people
- 74 kmUmeda1,316 people
- 75 kmJuso Bridge
- 75 kmYodogawa Great Bridge (Route 2)
- 75 kmShimo-Yodogawa Bridge
- 75 kmEbie11,675 people
- 75 kmOsaka Bayat -4 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 214 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 12 seconds. It drops from 79 m to -4 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 8,240 km², about the size of PR. 7.8 million people live in it. Highest water: from June to August. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (31% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- OsakaLargest city on its banks · 2,753,862 people
- Osaka Itami International Airport (ITM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 11 km from the cityCar hire at KIX airport (Osaka)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water8 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From April to May and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Yodo River, month by month
Highest water: from June to August
Best months to visit: from April to May and from October to November.
From about 160 m³/s in the lowest month to 250 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
Yodo River: the basin in numbers
7,705 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 7.8millionpeople live in the basin
- 1,035/km²people per km²
- 290maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,811mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 13.6°Caverage air temperature
- 27%protected areas
- 8.9%covered by lakes
- 2.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 52% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 29% 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
Yodo River: what you find on the way
- 32Weirs
- 8Locks
- 3Waterfalls
- 1Boat ramps
- 6Ferry piers
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Yodo 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
15mountains at the sourcePeakyas
8islands off the mouthIslandyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Biwakm 11 · 104 m deep673km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Mountains at the source (15)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Hiei8.8 km away848m
- Shimei-dake9.1 km away778m
- Mount Otowa13 km away593m
- Mount Mikami10 km away432m
- Mount Nyoigatake11 km away472m
- Mount Daimonji12 km away455m
- Mount Ōsaka11 km away325m
- Mount Dainichi14 km away326m
7 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (8)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Kobe Airport26 km away
- Rokkō Island20 km away5.8km²
- Port Island25 km away4.4km²
- Yumeshima11 km away
- Maishima10 km away
- Sakishima10 km away
- Nishinomiya-hama14 km away
- Rokko Island South20 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
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
Yodo River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (9)
Also: Kamo River, Katsura River, Takase River, Kizu River, Amano River, Daido River, Akuta River, Funahashi River, Hotani River
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1140505) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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