FUKUSHIMA: What 15 Years Without People Did to This Town | 4K Travel Documentary

Ninety-seven point eight percent of this Japanese prefecture never closed. The trains run, the peach orchards fill in August, and its brewers have taken more gold medals at Japan's national sake awards than any other region in the country — a streak that began two years after the world stopped saying the name Fukushima as a place and started saying it as a warning. But along one stretch of the Pacific coast, there are towns that have stood empty for fifteen years. In Futaba, the register still lists five thousand three hundred residents. About one hundred and eighty actually sleep there tonight. In this documentary, discover the castle town that survived a month-long siege in 1868, the thousand-year-old cherry tree still flowering at Miharu, the nail-free double-helix temple built in 1796, the cavalry festival that has run for seven centuries, and the boar, macaques and butterflies that moved in when the people did not come back. Take a breath. Stay a while. ▶ See More Where on Earth Documentaries:    • PANAMA CANAL: The Waterway That Could Stop...      • PORTUGAL: Europe's Poorest Country Reborn ...   ▶ Subscribe:    / @whereonearth4k   #Fukushima #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #Japan #Rewilding