Gunma Prefecture Live Cameras
Gunma Prefecture Southern (Maebashi)
Maebashi City | Takasaki City | Kiryu City | Isesaki City | Ota City | Tatebayashi City | Shibukawa City | Fujioka City | Tomioka City | Annaka City | Midori City | Shinto Village | Yoshioka Town | Ueno Village | Kanna Town | Shimonita Town | Nammoku Village | Kanra Town | Higashiagatsuma Town | Showa Village | Tamamura Town | Itakura Town | Meiwa Town | Chiyoda Town | Oizumi Town | Ora Town
Gunma Prefecture Northern part (Minakami)
Numata City | Nakanojo Town | Naganohara Town | Tsumagoi Village | Kusatsu Town | Takayama Village | Katashina Village | Kawaba Village | Showa Village | Minakami Town
All over the prefecture
- Akagi Nanmen Senbonzakura | Akagi Nanmen Senbonzakura, 2511-2 Naegashimamachi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-0241 | Maebashi City Guide
- Lake Onuma | Lake Onuma, Fujimimachi Akagisan, Maebashi, 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
- Tatebayashi City Tsutsujigaoka Park | Tsutsujigaoka Park General Management Office, 3181 Hanayamacho, Tatebayashi, Gunma 374-0005
- Marunuma Plateau Mount Nikko Shirane | Nikko Shirane Ropeway Summit Station, Higashiogawa, Katashina, Tone District, Gunma 378-0414 | Marunuma Kogen Resort
- 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 | camera titles from the top: #1 The East of Mt. Asama Live View, #2 The West of Mt. Asama, #3 Mt. Kurofu | Tone River Watershed Erosion Control Office
Gunma Prefecture Live Camera Map
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.
