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Ishikawa Live Cameras in Japan — 5 official webcams
Kenrokuen and Kanazawa Castle Park, four cameras the prefecture streams around the clock, plus a volcano camera on Mount Hakusan at the border with Gifu.
What you can see
Four of the five come from the parks division of the Ishikawa Prefectural Government. Kenrokuen looks out over one of the three great gardens of Japan from inside the garden itself. The other three are in Kanazawa Castle Park: Gyokusen'inmaru Garden, a lord's private garden rebuilt in modern times; the Sannomaru plaza, where the white lead-tiled turrets and the long storehouse stand in a row; and the site where the Ninomaru palace, once the seat of the Kaga domain's government, is being rebuilt. That last one changes most from day to day: pillars go up and roofing goes on inside a temporary shelter roof.
All four run from the same channel at once, so this site does not embed them and sends you to the stream instead. The prefecture's site policy forbids copying its images, so there are no sample frames here either. Tapping through opens the prefecture's own stream.
The fifth is the Meteorological Agency's Mount Hakusan, a volcano under constant watch on the border with Gifu. Its last recorded eruption was in the Edo period and it has been quiet since. This one is a still image that refreshes every two minutes.
5 cameras in Ishikawa
4 video, 1 still. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Sample August 2026
Mount Haku
Ishikawa / Gifu border · Volcano · Nature
With Fuji and Tateyama, one of the three mountains of old Japanese religious practice. Its eruption record ends in the Edo period and it has been quiet since.
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Live video
Kenrokuen garden
Kanazawa, Ishikawa · World Heritage · Nature
One of the three great daimyo gardens of Japan, seen from inside the grounds. In winter the yukitsuri ropes draw cones over the pines; in spring cherry blossom, in autumn colour, all in the same frame.
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Live video
Gyokusen-inmaru garden, Kanazawa Castle
Kanazawa, Ishikawa · World Heritage · Nature
A strolling pond garden built as the lord's private grounds and rebuilt in recent decades. Stone walls and trees stand reflected in the pond, and a strong wind breaks the reflection.
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Live video
Sannomaru square, Kanazawa Castle
Kanazawa, Ishikawa · World Heritage
The square where the Hishi-yagura turret, the Gojikken-nagaya storehouse and the Hashizumemon-tsuzuki-yagura stand in a white-tiled row. You can see how many people are there, so on event days it fills up.
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Live video
Ninomaru palace rebuilding, Kanazawa Castle
Kanazawa, Ishikawa · World Heritage
The site where the Ninomaru palace, once the seat of the Kaga domain's government, is being rebuilt. Under the temporary roof the pillars go up and the roof goes on: a camera whose picture changes by the day.
When to watch
The four cameras in Kanazawa keep the same framing while the season inside it changes. The snow ropes at Kenrokuen — cones of rope that hold the pines up under wet snow — go on in November and come off in the middle of March, and that is the only time you will see them. Then come cherry blossom, summer green and autumn colour. The Sannomaru plaza shows the crowd as it is, so an event day and an empty early morning look like two different places.
All four stream twenty-four hours, but a garden and a castle at night show only what the lights reach. Open them in daylight if you want the stonework and the turrets.
Mount Hakusan turns white through the winter and lets go of its snow late. Being a still image, it is close to black at night. For the outline of the mountain, look in the morning before the cloud builds.
Closer looks at cameras here
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- Ishikawa Prefecture, Parks and Green Spaces Division (Links free, no reuse) — Official site
- Japan Meteorological Agency — volcano surveillance cameras (PDL 1.0) — Official site
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.