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A high-definition camera captures live image of Hakuba mountains in Nagano prefecture, some 300km from Tokyo. The 1998 Winter Olympic Games took place here. The picture quality is second to none.

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白馬村、蕨平地区にあるホテルの屋上の一角をお借りして設置した高画質ライブカメラが捉えた画像です。

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Further information about Yotsuya

is a neighborhood in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It is immediately adjacent to the Kojimachi area that falls within Chiyoda. Before 1943, when Tokyo was a city, Yotsuya was one of its wards. The name is written variously as 四谷, 四ツ谷, and 四ッ谷. As a ward, Yotsuya had definite boundaries, but as a modern neighborhood, it is less clearly defined. An area within Shinjuku is named Yotsuya, divided into four "chōme." Before the growth of Edo, Yotsuya was a farming village outside the city. In 1634, with the digging of the outer moat around Edo Castle, many temples and shrines moved to Yotsuya. The moat had stone walls, and a "mitsuke," or watch tower, was also built. Yotsuya Mitsuke stood near the present-day JR Yotsuya Station. The relocation of the temples and construction of the "mitsuke" brought settlements of workers, and following the devastating Meireki fire, many more people moved to Yotsuya, which had been spared. Gradually the area became part of the city of Edo. In 1695, the shogun ... Read more about Yotsuya on Wikipedia

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