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There must be more than one but I haven’t found any others. It is located at the end of DenDen Town and points to the area around the Tsutenkaku Tower. No, it won’t be any use if you are hoping to spot cute girls around Osaka but it is controllable and it is live. You’ll need Java to see and control the web-cam.
Here’s the official and original page (controls are in Japanese):
http://www.us-tec.com/live/index.html
and here is the same cam with the controls in English:
http://webcams.gajda.cz/asia/osaka/osaka.html
If you read Japanese then the original page has some information on the weather forecast as indicated by the colours displayed by the Tsutenkaku Tower.
If you know of any other web cams of the Osaka area please post a comment to tell us about it.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Hiro // Nov 6, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Wow! Cool!
I didn’t know this.
2 PapiGiulio // Nov 13, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Hey Ian, thats a really cool find, anymore of these?? or maybe even in Tokyo? Would mind keeping this on all day haha
3 Pres // Nov 22, 2007 at 10:22 am
There’s a high-quality camera outside Hankyu Takatsuki station, halfway between Osaka and Kyoto to the north, mounted on the front of a shop called Morimoto that’s been a fixture of Takatsuki for at least the 15 years that I’ve been here. Rather than being freely controllable, there are some preset orientations that you can swing the camera around to. I first ran across this camera about a year ago.
http://morimoto-takatsuki.miemasu.net/CgiStart?page=Single&Language=2
(change the final “2″ in the URL to a “1″ to get the Japanese interface)
4 Ian Cheung // Nov 28, 2007 at 12:47 am
Pres, thanks! That’s a pretty good find. I love the quality of the feed, and I think I know the type of camera that is being used.
I think I’ll make a new sidebar list for web cams of Osaka if there are any more that turn up.
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