Tokushima

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Tokushima Prefecture Live Cameras
Tokushima Prefecture Tourism Information

Tokushima Prefecture Live Cameras

Tokushima Prefecture Northern part (Tokushima)

Tokushima Prefecture Southern part (Hiwasa)

All over the prefecture

Tsurugisan | Tsurugi Mountain Climbing Lift Nishijima Station, 205-2 Higashiiyasugeoi, Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture, 778-0201 | Tsurugisan Tourism Promotion Council
Oboke Bridge | Nishiu, Yamashiro-cho, Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture | Miyoshi City Tourist Information Center
Iya Tunnel Sightseeing / Iya Tunnel Disaster Prevention | Oinouchi, Nishiiyayamamura, Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture | Miyoshi City Tourist Information Center
Okuiya Niju Kazurabashi Bridge | Okuiya Niju Kazurabashi Bridge, Higashiiyasugeo, Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture 778-0201 | Miyoshi City Tourist Information Center
Iya-no-Kazura-bashi / Vine Bridge in the Iya Valley | Vine Bridge in the Iya Valley, 162-2 Nishiiyayamamura Zentoku, Miyoshi, Tokushima 778-0102 | Miyoshi City Tourist Information Center “Oboke Iya Navi”
Shiozuka Plateau | Shiozuka Highlands Observatory, Yamashiro Town, Miyoshi City, Tokushima 779-5327 | Miyoshi City Tourist Information Center
Udatsu Townscape | Wakimachi/Udatsu Townscape, 2 Wakimachi, Wakimachi, Mima City, Tokushima Prefecture 779-3610 | Mima City Office
Bizan Park | Bizan Park, Mosukegahara, Bizan-cho, Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture 770-0908 | Tokushima City Park Green Space Management Corporation
Tokushima Prefectural Kamiyama Forest Park | Tokushima Prefectural Kamiyama Forest Park, 459-1, Ano Daichi, Kamiyama-cho, Myozai-gun, Tokushima 771-3201 | Tokushima Central Forestry Association
Honden (Main Shrine) and Gomaden, Hashikura-ji Temple | address: Hashikura-ji Temple, 1006 Shuzukuratani, Ikeda-cho, Miyoshi-shi, Tokushima 778-0020 | site title: Konpira Okunoin Hashikura-ji Temple
Uchizuma Coast | Uchizuma Beach, Mugi Town, Kaifu District, Tokushima Prefecture 775-0007 | uchizuma uchizuma
Magosaki Lighthouse Onaruto Bridge | camera title: Video from Magosaki Lighthouse | address: Magosaki Lighthouse, Tosadomariura Fukuike, Narutocho, Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture, 772-0053 | site title: Maritime Information and Communication System
Ikeda Dam | Ikeda Dam, Nishiyama Yajiri, Ikedacho, Miyoshi, Tokushima 778-0040 | Ikeda General Management Office
Katsuura River | Tsukigatani Onsen, Masaki Dam, Hoshitani Bridge | Katsuura Town / Kamikatsu Town Live Camera
Minami Town / Mugi Town / Kaiyo Town | Disaster Prevention Cameras in Each Town | Kaifu District Intranet
Nakagawa River and Kuwanogawa River | camera titles: Nakagawa River Furusho Point, Kuwanogawa River Ohara Point, Live video is deliveried only during flood | site title: Nakagawa River Office
Roads in Tokushima Prefecture | camera title: Shikoku Road Live Images, National Route 11, 32, 33, 55, 56 and 192 | site title: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Shikoku Regional Development Bureau
Yoshinogawa River | camera titles: “Yoshino River Live Video,” ①Yoshino River Bridge, ②Near the Tenth Weir, ③Near Awa Central Bridge, ④Near Iwadu Bridge, ⑤Near Miyoshi Ohashi Bridge, ⑥Near Odera | site title: Tokushima Office of River and National Highway, Shikoku Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land. Inflastructure and Transport

Tokushima Prefecture Tourism Information

The prefectural capital of Tokushima is Tokushima City. The population of the prefecture is 786,000 people. Tokushima was once called “Awa country” because chestnut was taken in the area, which was once ruled by Sengoku Daimyo Mr. Miyoshi. There are famous tourism resources such as Awa Odori, Naruto no Uzushio (Whirlpools of Naruto), Iyakei (Iya Valley), Oboke-Koboke, Tsurugi-san (Mt. Tsurugi) and Yoshino River.

Naruto-no-Uzushio (Whirlpools), a strait that is located between Magosaki in the city of Naruto and Awaji Island, are seen at low tide and high tide. Uzu-no-Michi (Road of Vortex) is the prefectural facility that was installed in the girders of the Onaruto Bridge, and the air promenade that extends to 450m makes you feel as if you were standing on the sea and looking down into the whirlpools.

Moreover, there is also a powerful look at a stone’s throw away in the whirlpools cruise ship, feeling the sense of smell of the tide.

Yoshino River is the largest river in Shikoku, which is 192km totl length and accounts for 20% of the Shikoku area.

There is Oboke-Koboke, the valley that was born through 200 million years, in the basin, and it is famous for rafting and Oboke sightseeing boat down the valley.

Tsurugi-san (Mt. Tsurugi) is the second highest mountain in West Japan, which is a religious sacred mountain of 1955m altitude, and it is higher mountain to Mount Ishizuchii. The mountain is relatively easy to climb thanks to a mountain lift.

Awa Odori is one of the nation’s largest festivals, which more than one million tourists visit every year, and is the lantern festival dance that can be called typical presence of Tokushima tourism. The slogan of the dance, “The fool dancing, the fool seeing, if both are fool, it’s a loss not to dance.” is famous, and the dance “Awa Odori” is listed in the three major Japanese lantern festivals along with Nishimonai no Bon Odori in Ugo town in Akita Prefecture and Gujo Odori. Awa Odori is the largest festival of the prefecture of Tokushima and tourists flock to see it from all over the country. In Tokushima Awa Odori Kaikan, you can watch Awa Odori even if it is not a festival season.

There are some local cuisines such as Soba-gome Zousui (buckwheat rice porridge), the fruit of buckwheat boiled with vegetablesand meat, and Bouze no Sugata Zushi, which is made from Bouze (butterfish) and “Japanese citrus.”