Shibuya Center-gai
The main arch of Shibuya Center-gai on a live webcam run by the street's own merchants: Tokyo youth culture.
About this view
Just off the scramble crossing, under the main arch, runs Center-gai, the pedestrian street that has set the tone of Tokyo youth culture for decades, and this live camera belongs to the street's own merchants' association: the crowd pouring in from the crossing, the fast-food fronts and the game centres, the flyer-hands and the fashion of the week.
The street changes shifts through the day: schoolkids and shoppers in the afternoon, the after-work wave at six, the club crowd at midnight. On Halloween and New Year's Eve the police close it to traffic entirely. Faces are blurred by software before broadcast, which puts the picture a few minutes behind the clock.
Tokyo keeps Japan Standard Time, UTC+9, with no daylight saving; the street is fullest from about 09:00 UTC, a European morning, and the neon holds until the last trains around 15:30 UTC. The street is 渋谷センター街 in Japanese.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is the Shibuya Center-gai live cam located?
- The camera looks over Center-gai, Shibuya, in Japan. Its position is 35.661°N, 139.697°E, which you can open on our world map.
- What time is it at the Shibuya Center-gai camera?
- Center-gai, Shibuya runs on UTC+9, and the live clock at the top of this page shows the current local time and whether it is day or night there. It is worth checking before you watch: this view changes completely between the middle of the night and the busiest hours of the day.
- Are there other live cams near Center-gai, Shibuya?
- Yes — the closest ones are Shibuya Scramble Crossing, Shinjuku Trains & Omoide Yokocho and Shinjuku Ōguard Crossing. They are listed under "Nearby cams" further down this page, and every camera we carry is plotted on the world map.
- Is this stream really live?
- Yes. This is a real 24/7 live feed broadcast by 渋谷センター商店街, played through the official YouTube player — free, no account needed. Every stream in our catalogue is checked automatically before each update to confirm it is still live and watchable.
