GUNMA PREFECTURE LIVE CAMERAS

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Gunma Prefecture Live Cameras
Gunma Prefecture Tourism Information

Gunma Prefecture Live Cameras

Gunma Prefecture Southern (Maebashi)

Gunma Prefecture Northern part (Minakami)

All over the prefecture

Akagi Nanmen Senbonzakura | Akagi Nanmen Senbonzakura, 2511-2 Naegashima-machi, Maebashi-shi, Gunma 371-0241 | Maebashi Live Camera
Akagi Onuma | Akagi Onuma, Akagisan, Fujimi-machi, Maebashi-shi, Gunma | Maebashi Live Camera
Mt. Asama | Tsumagoi Village, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture | Japan Meteorological Agency, Maechannet
Mt. Haruna Lake Haruna | Harunako Romance Tei, 848 Harunakomachi, Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture 370-3348
Marunuma Kogen Nikko Shiranesan | Nikko Shirane Ropeway Summit Station, Higashiogawa, Katashina Village, Tone District, Gunma Prefecture 378-0414 | Marunuma Kogen Resort
Tatebayashi City Tsutsujigaoka Park | Tsutsujigaoka Park General Management Office, 3181 Hanayama-cho, Tatebayashi-shi, Gunma 374-0005
Tone River | Fujiwara Dam, Aimata Dam, Mayuhara Dam | Tonegawa Dam Integrated Management Office
Mt. Asama and Mt. Kusatsumotoshirane | Tone River Sabo Office
Manza Karabuki | Manza Nature Center, 2401 Hoshimata, Tsumagoi, Agatsuma District, Gunma 377-1528 | Internet Nature Institute
Kusatsu Onsen | Kusatsu, Kusatsu Town, Gunma Prefecture | Kusatsu Onsen Tourism Association
Mount Kusatsu Shirane / Ainomine, Mount Kusatsushirane | Kusatsu, Kusatsu Town, Gunma Prefecture | Japan Meteorological Agency
Marunuma Kogen Ski Resort | Marunuma Kogen Ski Resort, 4658-58 Higashiogawa, Katashina, Tone District, Gunma 378-0414
Katashina Kogen Ski Resort | Katashina Kogen Ski Resort, 2990 Koshimoto, Katashina, Tone District, Gunma 378-0413
Tone River | Tone River and Watarase River | Tone River Upstream River Office
Gunma Prefectural Roads | Gunma Prefecture Camera Map | Gunma Prefecture Prefectural Land Development Department Road Management Division
Mt. Asama and Mt. Shirane, address: Tone River Water System Sabo (Erosion Control) Office, 121-1 Shibukawa, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-8566, camera titles from the top: #1 The East of Mt. Asama Live View, address: Kita Karuizawa, Naganohara-machi, Azuma-gun, Gunma, #2 The West of Mt. Asama, address: Tashiro, Tsumagoi-mura, Azuma-gun, Gunma, #3 Kusatsu Shiranesan (Mt. Shirane) Live View, address: Ainemine, Kusatsu, Kusatsu-machi, Azuma-gun, Gunma

Gunma Prefecture Tourism Information

Gunma Prefecture is in contact with Fukushima Prefecture and Niigata Prefecture in the north, Tochigi Prefecture in the east, Saitama Prefecture in the south, Nagano Prefecture in the west. The area of the prefectural land is 6,362 square kilometers. The northern prefecture and the western prefecture are mountainous areas, the southern part is a part of the Kanto Plain, and two thirds of the prefectural land is hilly. Since the shape of the prefectural land looks like a crane, it is called “Gunma Prefecture, the form of dancing crane”. Terrain and climate are different in the north and the south, the south is one of Japan’s leading heat wave regions, and the north cool is a cool region with harsh cold winter.

Most of the regions in the northern prefecture are specified in the heavy snowfall, and Katashina village of Tone-gun is specified in the special heavy snowfall. Katashina village, Minakami Village of Tone-gun and Agatsuma County Region in the north have lots of ski resorts because of often snow.

The prefectural population is about 2 million people and the population of the prefectural capital, Maebashi City, is about 340,000 people.

The prefecture name is derived from the prefectural capital, Gunma County, and Gunma means the rich land where horse herd. Gunma is called “Joshu” or “Jomo”, and it comes from the former Ueno County. Ueno County became Takasaki Prefecture after the domain system was abolished, and finally eight provinces were integrated and renamed Gunma Prefecture.

In addition, Gunma is the hot spring kingdom with more than 100 hot springs in the prefecture and there is are famous hot springs such as Kusatsu Onsen, Ikaho Onsen, Minakami Onsen and Shima Onsen. Kusatsu Onsen is a natural hot spring of water flowing directly from the hot spring source whose natural amount of discharge is the most in Japan. Ikaho Onsen has the town of stone steps that is full of emotion. Minakami Onsen is characterized by the beautiful valley of the Tone River upstream, Shima Onsen is popular because it is said to be the therapeutic bath that works in forty thousand diseases, and these places are high quality and rich natural hot spring areas.

There are local cuisines such as Okkirikomi, noodle dishes that homemade wide noodles of wheat flour and seasonal vegetables are stewed, Namaimokonnyaku Ryori, which is made from elephant foot, Yakimanju (baked bun), the baked seamed buns that are stabed to bamboo skewers with sweet miso sauce.