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Nagano Live Cameras in Japan — 8 official webcams

Three volcanoes of the southern Northern Alps - Yakedake, Norikura and Ontake - two 4K live streams from Kamikochi, and Zenko-ji temple and Nagano station in the city. Monitoring eyes, visitors' eyes and street eyes on one prefecture.

What you can see

Three of the eight are volcanoes under constant watch by the Japan Meteorological Agency, one is a scenic camera from the Ministry of the Environment, two are live video coming out of Kamikochi, and two are street cameras in the city of Nagano. Two of them point at Mount Norikura for different reasons - the Environment Ministry's Norikura Kogen as a view up to the ridge from the plateau, the Meteorological Agency's as a monitoring shot of the same peaks.

Both Kamikochi cameras are video. Kappa-bashi shows the Hotaka range beyond the suspension bridge over the Azusa river; the bus terminal camera shows the same ridge through larch woods. Both are streamed by the people who look after the place, and both play inside this page.

Mount Yake stands just south of Kamikochi; its 1915 eruption dammed the Azusa river and created Taisho Pond. Mount Ontake erupted in 2014 with heavy loss of life among climbers, and that eruption is why Japan reviewed volcano monitoring nationwide. Many of the cameras on this site trace back, indirectly, to this mountain.

The two city cameras are streamed by the local cable station. Zenko-ji has two cameras on the great gate and alternates between them, one facing the main hall and one facing the shopping street of the approach. JR Nagano Station looks down into the concourse from a building opposite, with the town and the mountains stacked behind the platforms.

8 cameras in Nagano

4 video, 4 still. Tap one to open it in the camera list.

When to watch

The Norikura Kogen camera looks up at Mount Norikura from around 1,500 m. Autumn colour runs from late September into mid-October, working its way down from the summit to the foot.

The higher the mountain, the more reliably cloud builds through the afternoon. For a clean ridgeline, open these early or through the morning. Mount Ontake has been watched more closely since the 2014 eruption, and the Meteorological Agency camera is part of that.

Kamikochi itself is open only from mid-April to mid-November (17 April to 15 November in 2026), and even then private cars cannot go in. The cameras open at any season and any hour, so you can have Kappa-bashi at dawn with nobody on it.

Zenko-ji holds a morning service at daybreak, and people gather on the approach before first light. In a Gokaicho year, held once every seven years, the grounds look nothing like their usual selves. The operator warns that the stream sometimes stops for technical reasons and comes back at a different address; if the button leads nowhere, look for it in the channel listing.

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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