Live Webcams in Kamakura

Kamakura, the old samurai capital an hour south of Tokyo, faces the sea, and the live webcams in Kamakura take the coast road with it: Route 134 along Sagami Bay at sunrise, from the island of Enoshima past the surf beaches and the little green Enoden trains to the temple town at the end. Kamakura keeps Japan Standard Time, UTC+9, with no daylight saving, so sunrise over the bay falls around 19:30 UTC in June and 21:50 UTC in December, an evening watch for Europe and an afternoon one for America. The shogunate that ruled Japan from here between 1185 and 1333 left the Great Buddha, cast in bronze in 1252 and sitting in the open since the sea took its hall. June brings the hydrangeas to the temples; a cold clear autumn morning brings Mount Fuji out over the water.