Ghost town in the "red zone" of Fukushima (8 photos)

20-year-old Tokyo Matilda visited the exclusion zone of Fukushima, Japan. A resident of Sheffield, England, toured an amusement park, school and cafe that have been empty for 13 years.





In 2011, after an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant failed, releasing radioactive waste into the environment and making it uninhabitable.

Residents evacuated the city, and it froze in time and became similar to the setting of the Fallout games and television series.



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“The place reminded me of Fallout, I experienced a heavy feeling of the apocalypse. In the city I saw only workers who every day are trying to get rid of the radiation layer of the soil and make it safe again,” Matilda shared.

"The hospital was the most radioactive place we explored in the red zone. We were afraid of staying there too long and getting radiation sickness. I've never been as scared as I was there."





The empty buildings look the same as they did on that terrible day.



Evidence of former life remains in the ghost town



The abandoned hospital is located in the “red zone” and has one of the highest levels of radiation recorded in it.

After a massive 9.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami, three of the plant's six reactors melted, leading to the worst radiation accident on the planet since Chernobyl. As a result, 11,000 people were killed, 4,000 were injured, and more than 230,000 buildings were destroyed.