Nature
Oze: 1 Live Camera in Japan
A raised bog on the Gunma–Fukushima border, known for skunk cabbage and day lilies. The Ozenuma camera quietly holds the water and Mount Hiuchi.
What you can see
Oze is one of the largest raised bogs in Honshu, spread across Gunma, Fukushima and Niigata. What the camera shows is Lake Ozenuma, at its eastern end.
Walking the wetland means hours on boardwalk to get up there; you cannot drive to it. Being able to open a place that is genuinely hard to reach is what this camera is worth.
The peak beyond the water is Mount Hiuchi, the highest in the Tohoku region. It is a simple composition — water and mountain — but the colour of the light shifts sharply between morning and evening, so it reads differently at different hours.
Cameras you can watch now: 1
All 1 are still images. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Sample August 2026
Lake Ozenuma
Gunma / Fukushima · Nature
A quiet lake surrounded by high moorland. With Mount Hiuchi behind it, the light on the water changes colour sharply at dawn and dusk.
When to watch
The lead changes with the season.
Late May into early June is skunk cabbage, the white spathes coming up across the wetland right after the thaw. It is the season Oze is best known for.
Mid-July is day lilies, turning the wetland an orange-tinged yellow.
Late September into early October is the marsh grasses, which go red-brown all at once, ahead of the trees.
From November to April it is buried in snow and the mountain huts are shut. This is the only time you see Oze with nobody in it.
For time of day, early morning. At 1,660 m, mist can rise off the water at dawn, and on a windless morning the surface goes to mirror and takes Mount Hiuchi whole.
Where Oze is
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- Ministry of the Environment — Internet Nature Institute (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.