Guy Sneaks Into Fukushima To Document The Ghost Town Untouched Since 2011

Published 8 years ago

It’s been five years since Japan experienced one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, that turned the city of Fukushima into a ghost town. Five years later, not much has changed since that fateful event. How do we know? Because Keow Wee Loong just brought back a bunch of extremely rare shots from his trip to Fukushima’s exclusion zone.

Equipped only with his camera and a gas mask, Loong snuck into the still-closed exclusion zone and captured these eerie images of a town forever trapped in a single moment in time. Shop shelves still filled with goods and cars left parked next to lifeless houses remind us of a once bustling city and give us the answer to a long pondered question: what would happen if one day humans were to just disappear?

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Fukushima, unlike Chernobyl, has not been looted yet

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Abandoned supermarkets got raided by animals that were left behind

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Pornographic magazines, issued March, 2011

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The book store

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Mouthwash from 2011. Still sealed

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Video rental shop has a 2011 movie poster outside, half of the inside is filled with hentai videos

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People left so quickly, they forgot their laundry. Yen coins scattered all around

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Time stopped in towns Okuma, Namie, Futaba, Tamioka

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Another huge supermarket in Namie with many items still in shelves

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More magazines from 2011

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Unopened video game console in an abandoned home

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An abandoned pub in Namie

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A lot of limited edition collections can be found in the CD shop

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Abandoned train station of Namie

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One of the barricades in Okuma town

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Want to see more eerie shots from Fukushima’s exclusion zone? Then head over here.

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