Live camera
Aogashima live camera — Aogashima, Tokyo
A double caldera with another hill rising inside the first. It has the smallest population of any inhabited island in Japan.
Sample August 2026What you are looking at
One of the volcanoes the Japan Meteorological Agency keeps under constant watch. It is a double volcano: inside the caldera there is another hill.
At the bottom of the hollow, ringed by outer cliffs, sits a smaller mountain again. It formed when a later eruption went off inside the large depression an earlier one had left, and having that nesting on a single island is unusual. The village is on the outer slope; flat ground barely exists. It has the smallest population of any inhabited island in Japan, and the difficulty of the boat and the landing is part of the reason.
This island was once emptied of people. In the eruption of April 1783 red-hot rock fell across it, 61 houses burned and seven people died. In the eruption of April 1785, two years later, an estimated 130 to 140 of the 327 residents died and the rest fled to Hachijojima. It was more than fifty years before anyone came back.
Being towards the south of the Izu Islands, open it in the evening and there is more light left than on the northern islands.
Island cameras are vulnerable to cloud and fog. Aim for winter: after the northwesterly monsoon, the air dries and the island's outline appears. A still image, refreshed every two minutes.
About this camera
| Place | Aogashima, Tokyo |
| Format | Still, every 2 min |
| Time zone | Asia/Tokyo (UTC+9) |
| Category | Volcano · Sea |
| Operator | Japan Meteorological Agency — volcano surveillance cameras |
| Terms of use | PDL 1.0 |
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