福島の原子力災害被災地を訪れることは可能でしょうか？また、訪れるべきでしょうか？実際に現地に行って確認してみましょう！

福島の原子力災害被災地を訪れることは可能でしょうか？また、訪れるべきでしょうか？実際に現地に行って確認してみましょう！

it was a restaurant by the road and uh 
yeah it’s completely abandoned do not enter nuclear disaster local response 
headquarters uh more than $200 billion in [Music] damage just after and then the 
tsunami came 15 minutes after and this is where we drove here today and you could see 
the power plant from the car uh 15 minutes later came the tsunami uh destroying 
the whole coast here in the Fukushima region this gas station so completely abandoned hello everyone welcome to another video 
of Out of Your Comfort Zone my name is Rodrigo and I’m here at the village of Futaba Fukushima 
region Japan yes you heard me correctly fukushima so you’re already wondering like can you visit 
Fukushima that was the question of the video i’m not going to let leave the whole video to 
answer you i’m going to answer right now yes you can visit Fukushima the Fukushima region where in 
2011 14 years ago you had the earthquake the the strongest earthquake in Japan’s history that was 
measured uh the tsunami 15 minutes later and the nuclear accident and the first place you should 
visit if you come in here it’s this one the Great East Japan Earthquake Nuclear Disaster Memorial 
Museum so as you can see it’s not that if you can visit they actually are encouraging people to 
visit here the region of Fukushima why because they are revitalizing the whole region and they 
want tourists to come they want people to see uh to understand what happened to learn about 
what happened and to learn how uh Japan was able to overcome this huge accident the most 
expensive accident in the history of humanity more than $200 billion in damage and I’m going to 
show you here first the the memorial museum and then a few other spots here around Fukushima 
that you can visit that you can still see uh traces of what happened the earthquake the 
tsunami and the the nuclear accident at the Dai uh nuclear power plant and just reminding about 
the the earthquake it happened in March 11 2011 and first the earthquake 9.0 in the in the scale 
of strength 15 minutes that was the strongest earthquake ever happened to Japan and Japan have 
a lot of earthquakes and then uh 15 minutes later came the tsunami uh destroying the whole coast 
here in the Fukushima region h and eventually was responsible to cause the accident in the Tai 
Chi nuclear power plant um then they have the the the nuclear accident and um displacement of 
people radiation spreading of radiation so on and as I mentioned from the earthquake 
and uh the tsunami 20,000 people died here uh in the the region but the nuclear accident 
actually only one person possibly has has died because of the accident due to lung cancer but 
it’s not completely certain that the connection it is with the the nuclear accident plus four people 
got leukemia but again think about the difference between the how many people died in the earthquake 
and in the tsunami and how many people died in the nuclear accident so come with me and I’m going 
to show a little little bit of the the memorial here and then to some other spots but before I go 
back to the video I’m going to ask you a favor if you haven’t done yet please like and subscribe to 
the channel it’s still a new channel so every like and every subscribe really helps the channel 
grow and that’s it let’s get back to it and uh here’s my ticket it costs 600 yen which is 
about $4 and they have brochures in English and they have a movie that they’re going to show here 
obviously I can record inside but uh it’s going to talk about the tragedy and everything this 
is where they’re going to play the movie here there’s a lot of interesting information in 
the brochure and here in the museum [Music] In 2017 they lift the evacuation in evacuation 
order in Tommyaka where I slept today so it been like 8 years that the tower has been 
recovering and rebuilding and people living there again here’s the nuclear power plant dai and this is where we drove here today and you 
could see the power plant from the car very interesting explaining how 
did the contamination process work [Music] the power plant just after the 
accident and in [Music] 2021 this is a fire truck that was destroyed by tsunami because the 
firefighters they were doing already the rescue because of the earthquake just after and then the 
tsunami came 15 minutes after so during the middle of the rescue when they got hit by the tsunami 
the outside view of the museum memorial for the Fukushima nuclear accident so this was like a 
observatory deck that they had here pretty close to the daer power plant this is the uh water water 
barrier and essentially this is the closest you can get to the power plant that’s the whole coast 
here and this is it this is the closest actually I don’t think I should be able to cuz I didn’t 
see that oh let’s try to see what does it say as you can see regarding difficult to return 
area no passing through nuclear disaster local response headquarters so I guess you shouldn’t 
pass through from here regarding difficult to return area do not enter nuclear disaster local 
response headquarters oh yeah so since I don’t want to get arrested here in Japan and I want to 
follow the rules I’m not going to go that way but literally the da chin nuclear power plant is like 
1 kilometer from here it’s that close so maybe if I was there I could see it but let’s respect 
uh but uh here that’s not abandoned observation point that they had here pretty close by by the 
coast uh and close to the the nug power station so this is one of the places that people usually 
visit when they are uh here in Fukushima as you can see a lot of signs do not enter do not enter 
uh and then became a symbol of the tragedy cuz it stands pretty close to where the nuclear accident 
was and obviously the earthquake and survived the tsunami actually and it’s here and obviously 
nature already taking over the building and there were obviously a lot of consequences uh here 
in Japan $180 billion dollars of costs related to the tragedy the most expensive natural disaster 
ever but also consequences all over the world for example the fear of nuclear uh energy that 
a lot of countries starting having be obviously after Chernobu and then Fukushima on top of that 
and let for instance to some countries completely uh scale down or stop completely the the use of 
nuclear energy for example uh Germany that they literally shut down all their nuclear facilities 
nuclear power plants which led to pretty negative consequences the larger use of coal g natural 
gas especially coal is extremely polluted but uh energy became more expensive as well um and took 
like many many years until now just now 2025 end of 2024 there’s like a renaissance of nuclear uh 
energy and more countries are starting to rethink the the use of uh nuclear energy start investing 
in new reactors smaller reactors and reactors different uh technologies new new 
technologies that in theory are safer and as you can see that’s the road going 
to the Diuker power plant and it’s closed off there when you’re driving around here you see 
a lot of these memorials uh for the victims of the tragedy another point of interest that you 
visit here in the Fukushima region if you are visiting is the UKa elementary school so as you 
can see it’s really really close to the ocean the ocean is just there and there were a lot of 
students here when the earthquake hit and then the tsunami warning came 3 minutes after and so they 
have to evacuate like really really fast and the tsunami hit 15 minutes uh after the earthquake 
itself so 12 minutes after the warning so that shows this memorial shows how the life just 
stopped at the moment and what’s left and as I mentioned it’s a proper memorial museum right 
now the ticket cost 300 yen which is about $2 [Music] so here shows the evacuation zone there’s 
a evacuation path to the mountain close by which was right there anyway you can see how 
close the school is to the water you can see here the gymnasium of kid elementary school 
here abandoned [Music] so this is this was the village that was the school today 
you only have the school as a building standing up all the rest is gone and here 
in the middle of the tsunami the school stands as you can see the school is right there 
and everywhere around and I saw that in other places by the coast they are just planting 
a lot of trees just planting a lot of trees i guess that helps with the tsunami like would 
stop the the waves but no more houses actually they kind of not learned a lesson like in a bad 
way it wasn’t their fault but they know Japan is prone to earthquakes and tsunamis so at least for 
now they’re not building any new houses close to the ocean so if the tsunami passed the water 
barrier the concrete barrier the trees would slow down i think that’s the theory i guess 
someone surfing there and also people surfing here this used to be the fishing village 
of Tommyaka one of the hardest hit areas here in the region of Fukushima and 
there’s not much village now they they rebuilt everything they did new uh ocean 
protections and uh you can even see from the other side i will show you how cuz 
the tsunami hit it here pretty hard and um so there are no pretty close like in 
the lower areas there are no houses no nothing i don’t know if those are were the old 
protections but you remember seeing on TV the images of the tsunami coming i don’t think I can 
pass you and those were too low like they just the water just went over and you can see like there’s 
close to the ocean there’s nothing like they have houses down there but it’s still here it’s like 
a it’s just a empty space so Tommyak has been recovering a lot this is that’s where I slept in 
a hotel here so they want to reboot they wanted to to start bringing tourists and everything 
i even spoke with the the the person in the hotel in the reception and they told me like 
they’re glad that things are coming back and they want to see more tourists like always being 
respectful of obviously but trying to understand what’s happening and visiting and bring the 
commerce and business back they want people to come back here they invest so much money look 
this is all brand new like all this parking lot as felt and everything is brand new so they want 
people uh back here they’re reinvesting a lot of money to revitalize the area because uh the da 
nuclear power plant is just a few kilometers from here we see if you can see from the sorry 
for the wind if you can see from the house uh lighthouse when you’re getting closer to 
the nuclear power plant you see a lot of abandoned houses and a lot of closed 
off streets they don’t want you to to get through let’s see if I can make it to 
the lighthouse sounds like these streets here there and I another closed street and I 
have no idea what those signs say so it’s a problem here everything’s closed off i can’t go anywhere i need to turn around 
and I don’t know how to do it [Music] so that’s the close I can get to the da nuclear 
power plant i have to go back abandoned houses like that one but now they’re all fenced off more 
abandoned houses most of these ones they’re all abandoned that’s why they have so many fences 
here so there are still some places that are abandoned like open like this one here like this 
gas station so completely abandoned they haven’t work to to try to to revitalize and everything 
or or to demolish because you can see for example uh that house over there is abandoned that 
house is rebuilt brand new and a lot of open lots with nothing anything so this is because 
that they they demolish the houses if they got permission from the owner and I don’t 
know if eventually they’re going to build something but it’s you see a lot of those a lot 
of just open lots like that when you’re driving around always forget like I drive 
in Japan it’s on this side here and you still have some abandoned cars 
around not that common anymore though and also still some abandoned stores it’s 
pretty close to cuz the power plant is just by the coast over there right here we are 
in land a little bit but the power plant the nuclear power plant that I see is pretty 
close to here so this is abandoned completely and even today 14 years after the tragedy they 
still have a lot of abandoned stuff this is I guess it was a restaurant by the road and uh 
yeah it’s completely abandoned because again the nuclear power plant is really close to 
here i wonder if they still have the coffee inside and that car seems very much abandoned 
as well and as you can see over there the geer counter 1.18 oh what I understand is 
like above two it’s starting to be complicated okay if I’m not mistaken that’s 
the Dai nuclear power station i think so all the machines all the uh crayons over there 
okay that’s the Nairo power plant it’s that close that you can get these days you can see all the 
cranes and everything yeah that’s that’s it so that’s where you had the nuclear accident in 2011 
because of the tsunami earthquake and tsunami wow that’s pretty close another geer counter here 
says 0.634 sorry the phone the camera doesn’t show properly but it’s less than the other one 
we saw which was 1 so yeah they have they still have all those geer counters around uh the 
region of Fukushima for safety reasons and this is a memorial to the victims of the tragedy 
here in the region of Fukushima actually you you can find quite a few of those when you’re driving 
around because obviously a lot of villages a lot of places were affected around here Fukushima 
so the memorials are kind of localized so right at the beginning of the video I answer your your 
question you can you visit Fukushima yes you can yes you should they want to bring business back 
to the region they want to reinvest in the the region they want to revitalize the region and as 
I mentioned even the guy in the reception work in the hotel I stayed there they’re happy that I 
was there they want to see my business coming back and so it’s worth a visit to understand 
what happened to learn from what happened and to see how people are recovering and rebuilding 
their lives and obviously always with a lot of respect it’s becoming more like a attraction 
tourist attraction i know it’s kind of weird to say that but it happens like people visit 
used to visit Chernobbile visit the Twin Towers memorial in New York it’s part of that happens 
like tragedies became eventually places that people visit to to learn to understand what 
happened so that’s it i hope you enjoyed the video if you have any questions if I say anything 
wrong and you like to correct me please use the comments area below uh and if you like the video 
push the like button subscribe cuz I’m going to have a lot of videos about different regions 
around the world about geopolitics about skiing actually I came to Japan to ski in the island 
of Hokkaido and I’m going to be publishing a video about that if I haven’t published it 
already so that’s it see you the next time

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