HankyuDentetsu Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 (edited) Live Webcams of railways across Japan! Inspired by Bikkuri Bahn's thread for a webcam near Saitama Shintoshin Station, I thought I'd post a few YouTube webcams that focus on - or at least heavily feature - railways across Japan. Disclaimer: these links can be temperamental - the users seem to take them down and then resume with no real pattern or consistency, so apologies if a webcam is currently offline! Feel free to add your own in this thread - I love watching them so the more, the merrier. ---------------------------- Kanto and the East/North First, by far the most widely viewed webcam I've come across, covering the multitude of lines between Tokyo Station and Shinagawa (inc monorail and Yurikamome), as well as the Shuto Expressway. There's always something happening here (Live) : ---------------------------- Tremendous webcam just north of Shinjuku Station covering all lines in their glory (plus bonus live Yunika Bldg stream) (Live) : ---------------------------- A really good stream the multiple JR East lines near Akabane Station. The cool thing about this one is that it uses AI to detect and display what services are on screen at the time.Very impressive (Live) : This user also captures regular videos of whole days worth of recordings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE5uxiZBrhwFPwzlSfmdWQA/videos ---------------------------- Tohoku, Yamagata, and Akita Shinkansen spotting near Koriyama City (Live) : ---------------------------- JR Chuo Line between Toyoda and Hino Stations (Live) : ---------------------------- Chuo Line between Kasugaichou and Isawaonsen near Kofu (Live) : ---------------------------- Kansai and the West/South Great live cam covering the Osaka Loop Line between Fukushima and Noda stations, complete with overlayed platform display from Fukushima Station. Unfortunately this user has disabled embedded videos. (Live) : https://youtu.be/UmoKPpCfBRk ---------------------------- Lovely live coverage of all Shinkansen and standard rail lines in and out of Shin-Osaka Station (excluding Osaka Metro of course!). (Live) : ---------------------------- A real close up view of Hankyu Umeda Station (Kyoto, Kōbe, and Takarazuka mainlines), - without doubt the most interesting private railway terminal in Japan, and a personal favourite given my affinity for Hankyu 🙂. Jackpot if you get 5-6 movements in shot all at once. (Live) : ---------------------------- A fantastic live webcam of the eastern approach to Osaka covering the Yamatoji and Osaka Higashi Lines (Kami and Shinkami stations in shot). I love this view, particularly at sunset. (Live) : ---------------------------- Nagoya Station in all it's glory - what a beast. Unfortunately this user has disabled embedded videos. (Live) : https://youtu.be/1AubAJTcNiQ ---------------------------- A lovely webcam of the Keihan Main Line between Chushojima and Yodo stations in Kyoto Prefecture. Keihan another favourite of mine, Chushojima a real charming station. Can't embed this one sadly. (Live) : https://youtu.be/sSdWn95uzp8 ---------------------------- Osaka (Setsu City) Torikai Railyard, home to many of the Tokiado Shinksansen fleet. (Live) : ---------------------------- Webcam of the JR Kyoto line sidings near Mukomachi station (Live) : ---------------------------- Not quite so exciting, but a bonus webcam of the Grand Staircase at Kyoto Station (Live) : ---------------------------- Kanazawa Station Live Webcam - including the gorgeous E7 Shinkansen (Live) : ---------------------------- Edited November 8, 2020 by HankyuDentetsu 4 Link to comment
HankyuDentetsu Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 Edited to add more webcams! I'll continue to add to the first post as I find more. 2 Link to comment
HankyuDentetsu Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 New webcams added, links updated and refreshed! Please feel free to add your own webcam links if you have any - and I'll make sure to add new cams as I find them. 2 Link to comment
HankyuDentetsu Posted November 7, 2020 Author Share Posted November 7, 2020 Updated! Several new webcams updated including Shinjuku Station's northern approach, Osaka's Loopline near Fukushima Station, and the mighty Nagoya Station in all it's splendour! 1 3 Link to comment
Takahama Trainwatcher Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Found this channel through Tamori Club: https://www.youtube.com/c/kumakumakumachannel (a bunch of live webcams here). 1 Link to comment
lighthouse Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Channel of Hakodate-Goryōkaku Station: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNoxPx5sKmEu5TiH3w5KI8A 2 Link to comment
The Birmingham train spotter Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 I've been on YouTube for almost 10 years now I remember seeing my first Japanese train video of the Famous Shinkansens "Doctor Yellow " and I was fascinated,recently I've been watching more live streams and I wanted to recommend some: 1) Osaka loop line live camera: 2) Kyoto line live camera 3) Fuefuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture live camera Plus some pictures I took whilst watching a EH200 and a EF64 4 Link to comment
katoftw Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 https://jnsforum.com/community/topic/16374-webcams-of-railways-in-japan/?tab=comments#comment-203350 1 Link to comment
HankyuDentetsu Posted December 4, 2021 Author Share Posted December 4, 2021 Thanks for linking my previous thread, Katoftw. After spending a lot of time pulling all the live streams into one place, I gave up maintaining it, as the links expire every few weeks. Most of the links in my original post are now dead unfortunately. Very frustrating! On 11/27/2021 at 8:15 AM, katoftw said: https://jnsforum.com/community/topic/16374-webcams-of-railways-in-japan/?tab=comments#comment-203350 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Merged them. My dyslexia had me read live steam in the new topic not live streams! jeff 1 Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 New webcam started last month. Osaka Tokaido Mainline/Osaka Higashi Line between Shin Osaka and Osaka Station. Almost constant action as you have the JR West shinkaisoku and local services running here. Worth a view or as background to get your Kansai railway vibe. You can also see aircraft making their final approach to Itami Airport. Lots of heavies on the Haneda-Itami route. 4 Link to comment
Sascha Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 This 3D Tokyo area Train map has a bunch of webcams https://minitokyo3d.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Vtwr5Hcb8RV549G1GheslfdQuM_qNzDVHhxCH4Ef12nbeVIpypOBqSB0 2 Link to comment
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