SAIGO

Station Information

Station ID: 1095
Latitude: 36.201389
Longitude: 133.331111
Coastline code: 647
Station code: 43
Country: JAPAN
Time span of data: 1965 – 2023
Completeness (%): 100
Date of last update: 04 Mar 2024

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: saig

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Saigo 647/043 RLR(1976) is 8.5m below Attached BM 2063

Documentation added 2003-11-20

Datum 1999 is 1.066m below Tokyo Peil.

Documentation added 2012-02-21

A massive earthquake magnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JST (05.46 UTC) on Friday 11th March 2011 with the epicentre approx. 70 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku. It was the most powerful earthquake known to hit Japan and triggered a tsunami with waves up to 40.5m and travelling up to 10 km inland.

Data Authority

Japan Meteorological Agency
3-6-9 Toranomon, Minato City
Tokyo