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Hokkaido Live Cameras in Japan — 15 official webcams

Nine monitored volcanoes and six cameras on Hokkaido's marshes and lakes, four of them Ramsar wetlands. Nowhere else in Japan follows cranes and swans on separate cameras.

15 cameras in Hokkaido

All 15 are still images. Tap one to open it in the camera list.

When to watch

The wetland and lake cameras become different places with the seasons. Lake Kutcharo is a stopover rather than a wintering ground for its whooper swans, so numbers swing sharply in spring and autumn, and the lake can freeze over in midwinter. The red-crowned cranes of Kushiro Marsh do not migrate and are there year-round, but they are easiest to spot in winter, once the grass has died back and snow has fallen. The camera watches one point of a very large marsh, so open it expecting to search the frame. Sarobetsu Mire comes into flower from June into July.

The nine volcano cameras look much the same all year, but winter days are short here: in December it is already dark by mid-afternoon. If you want a Hokkaido morning, open it about an hour earlier than you would for Honshu.

Closer looks at cameras here

Agencies publishing the cameras on this page

The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.

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