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Fukushima Live Cameras in Japan — 4 official webcams

Three monitored volcanoes — Azuma, Adatara and Bandai — plus Renge Marsh on the Urabandai side. Bandai appears twice: as a volcano under watch, and as a view across water.

What you can see

Three volcanoes under constant watch by the Japan Meteorological Agency, plus one lake camera from the Ministry of the Environment. Three of the four look at the same volcanic district from different angles, which makes this a dense corner of the map.

Mount Bandai lost its northern flank in the eruption of 1888, and the debris dammed the valleys to create the lakes of Urabandai. What the Renge-numa camera shows is the landscape that eruption built: pond and mountain in one frame, cause and effect in a single picture. The Oana crater on Mount Azuma and Numanotaira on Mount Adatara are both bare crater floors, sharply different in colour from the green around them.

4 cameras in Fukushima

All 4 are still images. Tap one to open it in the camera list.

When to watch

Renge Marsh is one of the lakes and ponds formed when the 1888 eruption of Mount Bandai dammed the rivers. Seeing one mountain through two cameras built for entirely different purposes — a Meteorological Agency monitoring camera and an Environment Ministry scenery camera — is a rare pairing even on this site.

Autumn colour runs from mid to late October, and because Urabandai reflects it off the water, a clear, still morning is the best time. In winter all three cameras go white, which if anything makes the shape of the ground clearer.

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