New Street Sentiment Of A Fukushima Ghost Town

Washed upward boats i kilometre inland from the Pacific Ocean

Google has released to a greater extent than haunting Street View imagery of the areas affected past times the Japanese earthquake together with tsunami. Google were asked past times the mayor of Namie-machi to tape Street View imagery of his town which sits inwards the Fukushima 12-mile evacuation zone. He wanted the evacuated residents of the town to last able to receive got a virtual tour of the town that they tin no longer see inwards person.

You tin persuasion haunting imagery take away on Google Maps or on the Memories for the Future website.

At Kamaishi Municipal Toni Elementary School it is difficult non to imagine students i time studying radiations half-life inwards the physics lab of this abandoned school.

In the town of Namie-machi itself, every bit you lot explore the abandoned town, you lot tin notice the devastation caused past times the earthquake together with larn a root mitt persuasion of how nature is reclaiming the town's sidewalks together with empty parking lots.