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Saga Live Cameras in Japan — 3 official webcams
Three cameras, on the Matsuura, Rokkaku and Kase. All are ministry river cameras, and between them they cover rivers draining into two very different seas — the Ariake and the Genkai.
3 cameras in Saga
3 video, 0 still. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video, rotating
Matsuura River
Karatsu, Saga · River
It crosses the Karatsu plain to the Genkai Sea. Sandbars build near the mouth, and the look of it changes with the tide.
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Live video, rotating
Rokkaku River
Takeo–Shiroishi, Saga · River
Its gradient is so slight that the Ariake tide pushes far inland. You can watch muddy water travel upstream.
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Live video, rotating
Kase River
Saga · River
The river that waters the Saga plain. Its floodplain hosts a hot-air balloon competition, and in autumn a wide expanse of grass appears.
When to watch
The Rokkaku drains into the Ariake Sea, which has the largest tidal range in Japan, and it feels it. Watching the water level swing with the tide is the point of this camera. The Matsuura, by contrast, runs to the Genkai Sea, and the Kase crosses the Saga plain to the Ariake.
River cameras are water-level monitoring equipment. They come under load in heavy rain, so there is a case for staying off them then and leaving capacity to the people who need them.
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- MLIT river live streams (Government Standard Terms 2.0) — 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.