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Seas of Clouds and Fog: 13 Live Cameras — Asia and the US

13 cameras on seas of clouds and fog: 5 on Taiwanese ridges looking down on the clouds, 4 where a castle, temple or rock peak floats in cloud, and 4 where fog rises and swallows the view. 6 in Taiwan, 3 in Japan, 2 in Korea and 2 in the US.

What you can see

We only gathered cameras whose descriptions mention a sea of clouds, clouds flowing below, or fog. The same cloud shows you different things depending on whether you look down on it or stand inside it.

Five ridges above the clouds, all on mountains in Taiwan. The Ogasawara viewing platform at Alishan is a round platform open on all sides, built for watching the sunrise over the sea of clouds; people gather there before dawn. The Taipingshan viewing deck sits on a ridge close to 2,000 m; a sea of clouds often pools below it, and in the afternoon the fog climbs up to the deck. The Eryanping trail climbs a slope of tea terraces; it opens to the west, so the evening, when the sun sets into the sea of clouds, is considered the time to see it. The Taiping Suspension Bridge is 280 m long and looks down from a 1,000 m ridge over the Chianan Plain and the sea of clouds. Guanwu is a trailhead on a ridge around 2,000 m; as its name ('watching fog') suggests, fog forms easily and on many days the clouds flow below.

Four places that float in cloud. The camera in Ono, Fukui, looks at the town in its basin and the ridge above it, where the outline of Echizen-Ono Castle stands; on foggy mornings only the castle is left above the clouds. The KNB news camera cycles through four sites in Toyama, and at one of them, Murodo on Tateyama, the clouds sometimes flow below. Sangwonsa on Chiaksan in Korea is a temple high on the mountain; on many days the clouds come down to its level and the halls can seem to float in fog. Ulsanbawi on Seoraksan is a wall of six huge rock peaks, and when fog swirls around them only the peaks appear to float.

Four places where fog rises. On the Qingtiangang 360-degree panorama at Yangmingshan you can watch fog climb out of the valleys and swallow the grassland. The Basen River gauge is in the Miyoshi basin in Hiroshima, a low place where rivers meet and one known for fog. Olympic National Park in the US is a foggy place, and you won't know whether it is clear until you look. Redwood National and State Parks is the forest of the world's tallest trees, and fog is frequent there.

Cameras you can watch now: 13

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

When to watch

The providers do not say in which season the sea of clouds appears, and we will not decide one here.

A few descriptions do mention a time of day. Ogasawara is at its best at dawn and Eryanping in the evening, and at Taipingshan the fog climbs to the deck in the afternoon. In Ono the castle stays above the clouds on foggy mornings. None of the other cameras gives a set season or hour.

11 of the 13 are video streams, so you can watch the clouds move. The 2 in the US are still images, and Redwood's changes every minute.

Mind the time difference. The 6 in Taiwan are 1 hour behind Japan, and the 2 in Korea are on the same time as Japan. The 2 in the US are on the Pacific coast, 16 hours behind on daylight time and 17 on standard time (calculated 2026-09-18), so their daytime is the middle of the night to dawn in Japan. See Which cameras are in daylight now.

If it isn't showing

The cameras come from Taiwan's Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, the Alishan National Scenic Area, Shei-Pa National Park, Yangmingshan National Park, FBC Fukui Broadcasting, KNB Kitanihon Broadcasting, the Korea National Park Service, Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and the US National Park Service. Only the 2 US cameras and the Basen River have sample images. The others either do not allow copies of their images or no usable frame has been captured yet; see How we handle the camera images.

Each place in full: Alishan Forest Railway (Ogasawara), Taipingshan, Dongyanshan, Alishan Tea Terraces (Eryanping), Taiping Bridge & Lijia, Shei-Pa, Taiwan (Guanwu), Fukui's towns and coast (Ono), US and Korean National Parks (Sangwonsa, Ulsanbawi, Olympic), Yangmingshan (Qingtiangang), The Gono River (Basen River) and Cascades and Redwoods (Redwood).

All mountain and forest cameras are under Nature.

Where to find Seas of Clouds and Fog

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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