Live Webcams in Kyoto

Kyoto, Japan's imperial capital for over a thousand years, is a city best met before it wakes, and the live webcams in Kyoto do exactly that: the streets at first light, temple walls, vermilion torii gates, wooden townhouses and the crossings of the downtown grid before the traffic arrives. Kyōto keeps Japan Standard Time, UTC+9, with no daylight saving, so dawn in the city falls between about 19:45 UTC in June and 22:00 UTC in December, which makes it a late-evening watch from Europe and an afternoon one from America. Of all the shrines along the way, the most photographed is Fushimi Inari, whose tunnels of orange gates are said to number some 10,000. Early April brings the cherry blossom to the temple lanes; late November brings the maples.