Nozuka Pass585 m
Hiroo Town, Hokkaido ・ 野塚峠（のづかとうげ）
Around Nozuka Pass3D view built from GSI elevation data and recent aerial imagery. The orange line is Route 236 (white dashes are tunnels). Use the buttons at top left to view from the north, east, south or west, or drag to rotate. On phones, move two fingers up or down to tilt, and pinch to zoom.
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Check if the road is open
Closures and road conditions change by the hour. Check official road information before you set off. These sites are in Japanese; your browser's translation feature helps.
- Road closuresHokkaido Regional Development Bureau (in Japanese)
- Road camerasMLIT road information system (in Japanese)
- Nozuka Pass informationKita-no-Michi Navi (in Japanese)
Nozuka Pass is in a "preventive closure section": when exceptionally heavy snow or a blizzard is forecast, the national government closes the road in advance. The section is 21.4 km long (MLIT list, in Japanese).
Pass data
- Elevation
- 585 m#12 of 31 by heightFrom Kita-no-Michi Navi mountain pass information (Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region).
- Road
- National Route 236
- Location
- Hiroo Town, HokkaidoMunicipalities of the pass and within 300 m of it (GSI reverse geocoder).
- Length of the pass section
- 21.4 kmBetween the chain-up areas (or road gates) on each side
- Steepest grade
- 6.5%Rises or falls 6.5 m over 100 m
- Tightest curve
- 100 m radiusMinimum curve radius; smaller is sharper
- Road width
- 6.5 m
- Chain-up areas
- Hiroo side: yes / Urakawa side: yes
- Preventive closure in heavy snow
- Yes (21.4 km section)
Section length, grade, curve, width and chain-up areas are from Kita-no-Michi Navi mountain pass information (Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region) (in Japanese), which is based on a 2001 road handbook, so some details may have changed. GSI Maps has no label for this pass, so it is placed at the highest point of the road within the preventive closure section. Checked: 2026-11-03
This page is not a driving guide. In winter, weather and road surfaces on mountain passes change quickly. Check the latest road and weather information, and do not push on in bad conditions.
Weather at Nozuka Pass
Sunrise and sunset
Today's times (Japan time) calculated for the pass's latitude and longitude against a sea-level horizon. Surrounded by mountains, the pass gets sunlight later and loses it earlier than these times.
Japan Meteorological Agency pages
Nearby passes
Nearby roadside stations
Nearby mountains
Straight-line distances from the pass.