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Miyazaki Live Cameras in Japan — 5 official webcams

Two cameras on the Kirishima range — from Ebino Kogen and on Shinmoedake — plus three rivers. Shinmoedake has erupted repeatedly in recent years and is watched closely.

What you can see

Two of the five are on the Kirishima volcanoes and three are river cameras from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. The two volcano cameras watch the same range for different reasons: Ebino Kogen (Ministry of the Environment) is a view across the plateau to the peaks including Karakunidake, while Shinmoedake (Japan Meteorological Agency) is a fixed monitoring shot from Inokoishi of the crater that erupted in 2011 and 2018.

All three rivers drop from the Kyushu mountains to the Hyuga Sea. The Gokase carries the water that cut the Takachiho gorge out to sea at Nobeoka, the Komaru lies on a typhoon track and changes sharply in bad weather, and the Oyodo loops in broad meanders through the city of Miyazaki.

5 cameras in Miyazaki

3 video, 2 still. Tap one to open it in the camera list.

When to watch

The view of the Kirishima range from Ebino Kogen takes in a whole line of craters from the side. The Shinmoedake camera narrows to one of them. The same massif, watched broadly and watched at a single point.

Kirishima means 'island of fog', and the name is earned: a blank white screen is nothing unusual here. Dry, breezy days are the ones that give you the ridgeline.

Closer looks at cameras here

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