Tenjin River Upstream Monitor

The Tenjin River Channel

The camera looks down a straightened, concrete-lined reach of the Tenjin River, a small watercourse that drains the hills above Takarazuka before flowing on toward the Muko River basin. The engineered embankments and stepped revetments are typical of Japanese urban flood management.

A Working Gauge Station

Front and centre is a graduated water-level staff gauge, the reference marker that lets the prefectural civil-engineering office read the river's rise and fall at a glance. The feed is one of many public river-monitoring cameras operated across the region.

Surroundings in Takarazuka

A road bridge crosses in the middle distance, and stacked materials, tarpaulins and low warehouses line the far bank, framing the everyday industrial edge of the city. Reeds and wild grasses soften the near embankment.

Why Watch

The view offers a quiet, continuous window on a living waterway and on the practical infrastructure that keeps it in check — a calm, unhurried scene of water, concrete and greenery at the heart of suburban Hyogo.