'The cutest thing on Google Maps': Dog is internet star after photo bombing street view

A dog became an internet sensation when it chased a car down a road to photobomb a Google Maps street view picture.

Google's camera caught the moment the pup from the district of Kumage in Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture spotted a street mapping car and gave chase.

According to the images, the excitable hound spotted the car when it was wandering by a nearby boat.

It then proceeded to chase the vehicle down the street with its tongue hanging out.

The brown and white dog was captured gleefully bounding down the street.

The images were spotted by Japanese locals who shared them on Twitter.

Images of the dog quickly went viral with many claimed it was “the cutest thing on Google Maps.”

Another person said: “Do I have homework to do? Yes. Have I spent an hour looking for dogs on google maps? ....also yes #doggo #googlemaps.”