A Japanese developer has collected live cameras from all over the country on a single interactive map. The Tomarigi service, whose name can be translated as “perch,” displays points on a map of Japan, and when you click on a point, the broadcast opens right there. At the time of the announcement, 1,383 cameras were live. This is an unofficial personal project that collects YouTube streams from cameras across Japan and plays them through an embedded player using the official API of the video service. The website does not store its own video stream.

The service’s database currently contains 1,568 points, of which 1,359 are broadcasting. The cameras are grouped by type, and the distribution shows that they most often capture scenes in Japan: city views – 463 points, nature – 278, rivers and roads – 242, the sea – 194, landmarks – 138, railways – 103, airports – 66, and animals – 59. Users quickly compiled a list of their favorite spots, including Kokusai‑dori Street in Okinawa, the Dotonbori district in Osaka, and the monkey center on Awaji Island.

One user said she showed the map to her father, who is undergoing cancer treatment in the hospital, and he was delighted at the opportunity to visit any point in the country right from his hospital room. Others noted that they noticed random passers‑by in costumes and unusual animals in the frame. At the same time, the reviews were not all enthusiastic: some users pointed out the inaccurate placement of markers and the fact that in some windows, instead of the live broadcast, archived recordings are opened. The developer acknowledged that the map is still rough and will require refinement, and a form for reporting incorrect marker placement has appeared on the website. When asked how the marker clustering works – when the map zooms out and the points collapse into a number, and when it zooms in, they expand again – the author named Tomui replied that he didn’t know, as this part of the code was written by the AI tool Claude Code. The same developer recently launched the Hitomoji platform for texts, where publishing content written by neural networks is prohibited, and the platform’s commission for the first registered authors is fixed at five percent.