Dogo Onsen, Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture Live Cam

The Dogo Onsen Honkan bathhouse stands in front of this webcam at Matsuyama, on the island of Shikoku in Japan. The wooden building rises in three tiers with a small turret on the roof, and steam vents stand above the tiles.

Dogo is among the oldest hot springs in the country, named in chronicles more than a thousand years old, and this bathhouse was built over it in 1894. The turret carries a heron, the bird that legend says revealed the spring; a newer bathing hall, Asuka-no-Yu, stands next door.

The baths open before dawn and close late, and visitors cross the frame in yukata from the surrounding inns. The building is floodlit in the evening, which is when the carved eaves show up best.