Kitami Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidà Â, Japan. Its observatory code is 400. It is 0.72344 Earth radii from the rotation axis and +0.68811 Earth radii from the equatorial plane, 143.7827 degrees east of Greenwich.
The amateur astronomers Atsushi Takahashi and Kazuro Watanabe discovered many asteroids here. , 680 discoveries have been made at Kitami.