River
The Yoshii River System: 3 Live Cameras in Japan
The river of eastern Okayama in three cameras: right below the Shintabarai weir, at Miyasu nearer the mouth, and on a tributary four kilometres away.
What you can see
All three are fixed on one spot: two on the main stem, one on the Kongo River tributary.
Below the weir shows the reach immediately downstream of the Shintabarai weir, which dams the Yoshii. How the water falls away from the weir is visible here.
The lower gauge is a water-level station, and of the two cameras the ministry has on this main stem it is the one nearer the mouth.
The Kongo River camera is on the tributary that joins the Yoshii, less than four kilometres from the camera at the weir.
With the foot of the weir and the tributary this close together, you can compare water falling from the weir and water coming in from the side.
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
Yoshii River, below the weir
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The reach immediately below the Shintabarai weir, which dams the Yoshii River. How the water falls away from the weir is visible here.
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Stream cover
Yoshii River, lower gauge
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A water-level station on the Yoshii River in eastern Okayama. Of the ministry's two cameras on this main stem, this is the one nearer the mouth.
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Stream cover
Kongo River camera
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A camera on the Kongo River, which joins the Yoshii. It is less than four kilometres from the main- stem camera at the weir.
When to watch
Heavy rain is when these matter. Below the weir the volume falling over it is there on the screen, so you can tell how much is arriving from upstream without reading a number. Decide about evacuation from your local authority. The cameras here are for seeing how things look.
The Kongo drains a smaller area than the main stem, so it reacts to rain sooner. Open it alongside the weir camera.
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 foot of the weir is the one to watch: the lower the water, the clearer it is where the falling threads gather. 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 Okayama.
The same prefecture also has The Asahi River System and The Takahashi River System. All three Okayama systems pair a main stem with a tributary, so opening them on the same day shows how differently the rain arrives.
Where to find The Yoshii River System
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.