River
The Yura River: 1 Live Camera in Japan
A Kyoto Prefecture river running from the Fukuchiyama basin down to the Sea of Japan, on a Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport live stream. Long stretches have low banks, and the water level is watched closely whenever it rains hard.
What you can see
The Yura crosses Kyoto Prefecture almost north to south. It rises in the Tanba hills, spreads out through the Fukuchiyama basin, then threads between mountains to reach the Sea of Japan.
What defines it is how little the lower channel falls. Close to the sea the bed barely drops, so water gathering from upstream is slow to drain and the low-banked stretches go first. In the 2004 typhoon Tokage, a tourist bus was caught in the floodwater here and its passengers waited on the roof to be rescued.
The stream is a rotating one: a single feed cycles through a series of points along the river, so you wait for the spot you want to come round.
Cameras you can watch now: 1
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Stream cover
Yura River
Fukuchiyama–Maizuru, Kyoto · River
From the Fukuchiyama basin down to the Sea of Japan. Long stretches have low levees, so the level is watched closely whenever it rains hard.
When to watch
On an ordinary day, morning. This is a basin river, and from autumn into winter mist rises off the water — the Fukuchiyama basin fogs readily, and the clearer the night, the thicker it gets.
The water rises in the rainy season and typhoon season, but the rougher the day the darker the picture and the more the rain blurs the lens. Take evacuation decisions from your local authority, not from here. These cameras are for seeing what things look like.
The feed is experimental and can stop without notice.
If it isn't showing
Kyoto's other cameras are at Arashiyama and Kyoto Gyoen. Compared with the stillness of Kyoto Imperial Garden, this one exists to show the volume of water and nothing else.
The region's other rivers are the Yodo, the Yamato and the Kino and Kumano.
Where to find The Yura 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.