Akita Port Live Cam
Live Akita Port webcam on the Sea of Japan, Akita Prefecture, Japan.
JapanStreamed by: ABS秋田放送Which ship is tied up at Akita Port today? The Akita Port live cam answers that from the waterfront of Akita City, on the Sea of Japan coast of northern Honshu, streaming around the clock over the harbor where cruise ships, ferries and cargo vessels come alongside. It is one of the Akita Prefecture webcams on the site.
The camera looks over the harbor and the port road that runs beside it, so the feed works as a harbor cam and a traffic cam at the same time: ships at the quay in front, trucks and cars heading to the terminals behind them. Like the other live cams worldwide on the site, it is free to watch and needs no sign-up.
Cruise ship days on the Akita Port webcam
Cruise ships tie up at the cruise terminal on Nakajima No. 2 and No. 3 wharves, two berths of 185 meters each, according to the cruise port data published by Japan’s Tourism Agency. That has not kept much larger ships away: Quantum of the Seas, 347 meters long, and MSC Bellissima, at more than 171,000 gross tons, are both on the list of recent calls.
On those days the live stream shows what happens on the quay. Downtown Akita is 13 kilometers away, around 30 minutes by shuttle, and the terminal has no parking for private cars, only room for 60 tour buses and 20 taxis, so the lines of buses waiting at the berth are the easiest sign that a ship is in.
Port Tower Selion stands about 800 meters from the cruise berths, a ten-minute walk. The glass tower is 143 meters tall, and its observation deck, at roughly 100 meters, is free and open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. On a clear day it looks north to the Oga Peninsula and south to Mount Chokai.
From Tsuchizaki to Akita Port
Long before the webcam, this harbor was Tsuchizaki Minato, a stop on the Kitamaebune coastal trading route between Osaka and Hokkaido during the Edo period. Tsuchizaki became part of Akita City in 1941, and the port took the city’s name.
The old name lives on every July 20 and 21, when the Tsuchizaki Minato Hikiyama Festival pulls its floats through the streets near the port. Since 2016 it has been part of the UNESCO listing for Japan’s Yama, Hoko and Yatai float festivals, and on the night of the 21st the floats head back to their neighborhoods around 8 p.m., the high point of the festival.
If the harbor is quiet on the Akita Port live cam, the other Akita webcam worth opening is the Akita Station Square live cam, in the center of the city.
