River
The Hino River: 3 Live Cameras in Japan — from Daisen
From the foot of Mount Daisen down to the Yonago plain: Mizokuchi upstream, the Hosshoji tributary, and Kudzumo near the mouth.
What you can see
All three are fixed on one spot, in upstream to downstream order here.
Mizokuchi is on the upper river at the western foot of Mount Daisen, and it measures rainfall along with water level.
Fukuichi on the Hosshoji is on a tributary that joins the Hino. It is less than three kilometres south of Kudzumo on the main stem, so you can compare above and below the confluence.
Kudzumo is near the mouth, where the Hino has come down from the south side of Daisen onto the Yonago plain.
Because the upstream station also measures rainfall, you can watch how much fell and then what the level did.
Cameras you can watch now: 3
All 3 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Stream cover
Hino River, upper gauge
Tottori · River
A station on the upper Hino River, at the western foot of Mount Daisen. It measures rainfall as well as water level.
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Stream cover
Hosshoji River gauge
Tottori · River
A station on the Hosshoji River, which joins the Hino. It sits under three kilometres south of the main-stem camera, so both sides of the junction can be compared.
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Stream cover
Hino River, lower gauge
Tottori · River
A station near the mouth of the Hino River, which comes down from the south side of Mount Daisen onto the Yonago plain.
When to watch
Heavy rain and typhoons are the time. Open from Mizokuchi and you see the gap before the upstream rain reaches Kudzumo. Decide about evacuation from your local authority. The cameras here are for seeing how things look.
Fukuichi sits just above the confluence, so you can separate the tributary's share from the main stem's. If only Kudzumo is moving, the water is coming from upstream.
The worse the day, the darker the picture, and raindrops blur the lens. Do not expect much of the image.
On a calm day, the contrast in channel width between Mizokuchi in the hills and Kudzumo on the plain is what shows. The operator publishes no best season, and we do not set one here.
If it isn't showing
The source is the Chugoku Regional Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. These are test feeds and can stop without notice. How to tell why a screen is blank is in What is happening when a live camera shows nothing.
All three are in Tottori. For the high ground the water comes from, see Kagamiganaru, Daisen.
The other rivers in the same prefecture are The Sendai River and The Tenjin River System.
Where to find The Hino River
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.