Hyogo

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Hyogo Prefecture Live Cameras
Hyogo Prefecture Tourism Information

Hyogo Prefecture Live Cameras

Hyogo Prefecture Southern (Kobe)

Hyogo Prefecture Northern part (Toyooka)

Toyooka City　　|　　Yabu City　　|　　Asago City　　|　　Kami Town　　|　　Shinonsen Town

All over the prefecture

Himeji Castle | Himeji Daido Seimei Building, 135 Toyozawacho, Himeji, Hyogo 670-0964 | Himeji Cable Television
Nakayamadera Temple | Nakayamadera Kannonin, 2-11-1 Nakayamadera, Takarazuka-shi, Hyogo 665-8588
Yunagi-no-Oka | Yunagi no Oka (former Family Inn Imagoura), 548, Kasumiku Sakae, Kami-cho, Mikata-gun, Hyogo 669-6541 | Kami Town Office
Tajima Airport | Tajima Airport, 1598-34 Kawatani, Iwai, Toyooka-shi, Hyogo 668-0081 | Tajima Airport Terminal Co., Ltd.
Toyooka Station | North Kansai Japan Net, 1089-7 Takaya, Toyooka-shi, Hyogo-ken 668-0064 | Live@Kitakansai
Takeda Castle Ruins | Tourist Information Center Tenku no Shiro, 363 Takeda, Wadayamacho, Asago-shi, Hyogo 669-5252 | Asago City Office
Sasayama Castle ruins | Tamba Sasayama City Office, 41 Kitashinmachi, Tambasasayama, Hyogo 669-2332 | Tambasasayama City Office
Amagasaki Castle | Bay Communications Inc. Amagasaki Sales Office, 1-chome, Kanda Kitadori, Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, 660-0883
Tonomine Kogen | Kawakami, Kamikawa-cho, Kanzaki-gun, Hyogo Prefecture, 679-3104 | Kamikawa Town Tourism Association
Akashi Strait / Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge | Tarumi Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture | MIDTAIL・kasasamovie・LIVECAM KOBE JAPAN
Awaji Island Monkey Center | Awajishima Monkey Center, 289 Hatadagumi, Sumoto City, Hyogo Prefecture 656-2533
Takenohama Beach | Takeno Tourism Association, 17-22 Takeno, Takeno-cho, Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture 669-6201
Shibayama Port | Shibayama Port, 222 Okiura, Kasumi-ku, Kami-cho, Mikata-gun, Hyogo Prefecture 669-6433 | Maizuru Port Office, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Yumura Onsen | Yumura Onsen-Near Arayu, Route 9 for Osaka / Kobe / Yumura Onsen Tourist Association Ryokan Food and Drink Association Shinonsen Town Yu, Mikata District, Hyogo Prefecture
Chitose River | Chitose River Basin River Information System “Mizumori” | Hyogo Prefecture Nishiharima Prefectural Citizen’s Bureau Koto Civil Engineering Office Management Division
Toga River | Toga River Surveillance Camera | Hyogo Prefecture Kobe Prefectural Bureau Kobe Civil Engineering Office Management Division
Prefectural Rivers | “River live camera system” Fukuchi river, Ibo river, Kobun river, Kusaki river, Somekawachi river, Hikihara river, Chitose river, Nishikawachi river, Shibun river, Izawa river, Kanno river, Kurisu river, Hayashita river, Nakagakiuchi river , Otsu Shigekawa | Tatsuno Civil Engineering Office, Nishiharima Prefectural Bureau, Hyogo Prefecture
Prefectural Roads and Rivers | National Route 9 / Northern Kansai (Yoka Wada / Mt. Kasuga Wada) / National Route 312 Live Camera | Toyooka River National Highway Office
Rivers and Roads in Hyogo Prefecture | camera titles: Kako River, Ibo River, National Route 2 and National Route 29 | address: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kinki Regional Development Bureau Himeji River National Highway Office, 1-250 Hojo, Himeji-shi, Hyogo-ken 670-0947 | site title: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kinki Regional Development Bureau Himeji River National Highway Office
Roads in Hyogo Prefecture, camera titles: National Route 9, Kita Kinki, Route 312, address: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Toyooka River National Highway Office, 10-3 Saiwai-cho, Toyooka-shi, Hyogo-ken 668-0025, site title: TAJIMA Disaster Prevention – Disaster Prevention Information of Roads and Rivers
Rivers in Hyogo Prefecture | camera titles: Fukuchi River, Ibi River, Kumon River, Kusaki River, Somegochi River, Hikihara River, Nishigochi River, Shibumi River, Izawa River, Sugano River, Kurisu River, Hayashida River, Nakagaichi River, Otsumo River | site title: River Live Camera System

Hyogo Prefecture Tourism Information

With regarad to Hyogo Prefecture of Kinki Region, the North faces the Sea of Japan, the south faces the Seto Inland Sea, and the prefecture includes the Awaji Island. The climate of the prefecture is separated by the Chugoku Mountains in the center of the prefecture, and it is divided into Japan Sea side of the north, the mountainous region of the central part, and the Seto Inland Sea side of the south. The prefectural land area is 8,396 square km, 67% of the prefectural land is forest areas, and the residential areas concentrates in the plain region of south. About 90% of the prefectural population lives in Kobe, Hanshin and Harima in the south of the prefecture, but the central region and the norhtern region where mountains occupy a large portion are the less sparsely populated regions. The prefectural population is about 5.57 million people, and the population of the prefectural capital, Kobe City, is about 1.53 million people. The prefectural land is roughly divided into Kobe, Hanshin, Tamba, Tajima and Harima, and the former seven countries, Settsu Province, Tamba Province, Tajima Province, Harima Province, Awaji Province, Mimasaka Province and Bizen Province became the current Hyogo Prefecture. There is the meridian where 135th meridian east and 35th parallel north intersect in Akashi City, which is located on the north side of Awaji Island in the southern part of the prefecture, and it is the place where the standard time of Japan is defined as nearly the center of Japan.

Kobe Port has flourished as a thriving trading port with China since ancient times, and because of opening the port of the 1868 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan it became an international trading port where internationalization, modernization and economic development progressed rapidly as a trade center of the world. Foreign settlement areas also developed in Kobe City, and made it the international city that foreign culture, economy has been penetrated.

There are tourist destinations of the prefecture such as “Himeji Castle”, a world cultural heritage and a national treasure, “Arima Onsen”, which is said to be the oldest hot spring in Japan, “Akashi Kaikyo Bridge”, the longest suspension bridge in the world, “Akashi Astronomical Science Museum” of the city of Akashi where a meridian that serves as a reference for Japan Standard Time, and “Kitano Ijin-kan Gai (Kitano Foreigner Building Street)”, the street of exoticism.

Thre are local cuisinses such as “Botan Nabe“, stewed vegetables and wild boar that is caught in Tamba Sasayama, “Ikanago no Kugini“, the salty-sweet stews of the frys of “Ikanago (sand lance)”, “Akashi yaki“, omlet of octopus with soup stock, “Kobe beef steak“, which uses a luxury Tajima cattle, the Kobe beef.