Elevation of Morioka, Iwate, Japan

Morioka, Iwate, Japan is 134 m (440 ft) above sea level.

Morioka's height from sea level is 134 metres, or 440 feet. GeoNames reads 138 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: 盛岡.

Ground within 5 km

112 m – 304 m

Mean 166 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 192 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 18

among the towns of Iwate, and 129th of 1,000 in Japan.

Nearest town

Takizawa

7.5 km to the NW, at 149 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Morioka

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Morioka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 206 m at 13 km west to 408 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 193 m at 13 km north to 107 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Morioka, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Morioka

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Takizawa	7.5 km	NW	149 m (489 ft)	+15 m
Yahaba	10.7 km	S	116 m (381 ft)	−18 m
Shiwa	16.4 km	S	102 m (335 ft)	−32 m
Hachimantai	25.4 km	N	271 m (889 ft)	+137 m
Hanamaki	35 km	S	79 m (259 ft)	−55 m

Peaks and passes near Morioka

Iwate San, peak at 2,038 m (6,686 ft), 21.1 km to the NW — 1,904 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Morioka is

Latitude 39.702053, longitude 141.1544838. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Morioka's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 138 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.