TOURS
We offer small scale private tours around the accessible areas during the pandemic under the restriction. Please feel free to contact us.
Standard Tour
Our standard tour takes 4-5 hours starting at JR Odaka Station on Joban Line. We are offering informative tours for 8000 JPY per person. → To book the tour click here.
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Custom Made Tours
A custom made tour is an independent trip plan designed and arranged just for you. An English speaking guide/driver will take you to look around Fukushima's coastal area, giving you a first hand experience of the area where the nuclear disaster took place. For more information click here
Tour for Students and Researchers
We can arrange tours for high-school/university students or for those researching the Fukushima nuclear accident and its social impact according to your request. We will try to arrange interviews, meetings, as well as permission to enter the exclusion zone. → Read more.
SCENES AND TOPICS
ABOUT US
Tours are planned and managed by Fukushima Prefectural Government in coordination with the two companies below:
- J Village
- The Lantern House

The owner Karin is a licensed guide of Real Fukushima Team. She will take you around and tell you about Fukushima.

Soso is the name of the northeastern region of Fukushima Prefecture. Despite the name, it is far from average and a wonderful place to be.

The newly reopened J-village is a sports complex in Naraha town, which is one of the former evacuation areas located 18 kilometres south of Fukushima Daiichi. Soon after the nuclear disaster, this sports complex became the front line base. Self Defence Force, fire fighters and thousands of clean-up workers and experts had been staying in …[Read More]
EXPERIENCES WITH US
There has been a lot of media in this area, especially the red zone and we wanted to understand more about the disaster, what happened, how the community is repairing and what are the challenges. So it was excellent to find Real Fukushima tour. It is like being in our own documentary with real facts and up to date information. Our guide has lived in this area all his life and his knowledge, passion and scientific explanations were invaluable. It is impossible to describe the area, especially the red zone, and how people have been affected and the extent and scale of the disaster. It is a humbling experience and I recommend that it is a must do to really appreciate what happened and now the cleanup and ongoing issues and successes are happening in Fukushima. Thank you, this tour is one that will stay with me for the rest of my life. →TripAdvisor

I can highly recommend this tour. The guide, being a local, has expert knowledge of the area and events and is very good at communicating in an informal and easy way. The tour gives, in my opinion, an unsentimental and true story of what happened in Fukushima and how it affected people living there. As such it is an important part of contemporary history, not only for Japan, but for the rest of the world as well. →TripAdvisor

The official tour of Fukushima exclusion zone and around. This is as real as you can get to see what actually is happening inside the area years after the earthquake strucked. The tour provides details and information of what had happened, what is happening now in the area. The tour took 4-5 hours, during that time you will be exposed to certain degree of radio activity area. In which is not dangerous at all. If you have seen Dark tourist, and interested in coming to see the area by yourself, don’t be afraid nothing as dramatic as in the show. This is the real thing, real fact, real lives, Real Fukushima. →TripAdvisor

LoI was lucky enough to find a tour company that is run by local residents trying to encourage people to see the real Fukushima, as opposed to what was depicted on the Dark Tourist show. If you wish to try with them please book your tour here, don’t forget to say that Travel Geek sent you 🙂 … and no I’m not on commission!rem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla id purus neque. Curabitur pulvinar elementum neque in dictum. Sed non lectus nec tortor iaculis tincidunt.

It was an absolutely impressive and recommendable tour. The guide was so awesome and she spoke English very well. Fukushima and also the contaminated area have such a nice nature. I think it is very important to show this place to get the people to know about the risks and consequences of nuclear power. And that is why it is necessary to keep some of the buildings and places to memories the people, also after the evacuation zone will be recultivated again. But especially for foreigners I want to say Fukushima is not just a nuclear contaminated zone it is also a really nice place to stay with beautiful nature and very cordially citizens.

It was quite a surreal feeling being in the evacuation zone. It is one thing to hear about it on the news, but quite another to actually experience this on the ground in person. I was shocked at how deserted the evacuation-lifted areas were, especially Namie. Driving through the evacuation zone was quite eye-opening, and really gave me a sense of what is currently unfolding in the area in regards to the ongoing radiation issue. The one place that really left an impression on me was the town of Namie, mainly due to the fact that you can feel that people suddenly packed up and left one day, leaving behind everything. It is actually quite eerie.

Karin has a masters degree in International Politics, speaks excellent English and was eager to welcome me to the Evacuation Zone and show me around. She had recently opened the Lantern House, a Bed & Breakfast guest house, right in Odaka (小高町), just 15 kilometers from the nuclear power station. Over the course of the following weeks we carefully planned my visit to the Evacuation Zone. I had never expected to run into someone as dedicated and knowledgeable as Karin. She knows all the data, all the places and all the people. When I came up with the idea to maybe do some short interviews with former evacuees, she arranged a meeting with Katsumi Anbe, a city government official who was the head of the Odaka ward education office before the disaster. On October 15, 2017 I stepped off the train and was picked up by Karin, who drove me to the Lantern House. I fell asleep in a big, beautiful Tatami room and was greeted by a home-made breakfast early in the next morning. →One Man, One Map

ACCESS

POINTS OF INTEREST
Driving through Red Zone
You are not allowed to enter red zone, but you can pass through it on designated roads. The roads marked with a blue or green below are open to the public and can be used without special permission. Walking and riding a bicycle, motorcycle, or other two-wheeled vehicle is banned. However, motorcycles over 125 cc can use the Joban Expressway marked in green and the national road Route 6. (Please note that the expressway is a toll road.)
Radiation Dose near the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant
Radiation maps
http://jciv.iidj.net/map/http://safecast.org/tilemap/

POSTS
J-Village
The newly reopened J-village is a sports complex in Naraha town, which is one of the former evacuation areas located 20 kilometres south of Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. Soon after the nuclear disaster, this sports complex became the front line base for the anti-nuclear accidents for Japanese Government. Self Defence Force, fire fighters and thousands […]
Rebuild a community by renewable energy
Kawabusa is a small village. It is located 15km northwest of Fukushima Daiichi NPP. Twenty kilometer radius of the Daiichi was completely shut for one year after the accident. Living restriction was cancelled in July 2016. Before the nuclear accident, Kawabusa had 73 families but now it has 12 families. Most of 20 returnees are […]
The doctors at Fukushima
In the wake of the 2011 nuclear disaster, doctors in Fukushima were faced with difficulties in dealing with radiation – the preparations for which were scarce, due to the assumption of safety of nuclear power. To assist with these efforts, many experts from Hiroshima, Nagasaki and all over Japan were sent in to help tackle […]
Tragedy, Hope, and the Fukushima Nuclear Meme
The tragedy of the 2011 Tohuko earthquake should never be forgotten for the people who lost their lives, for the people who were displaced, and for the long-lived consequences at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The communities on the coast of Fukushima Prefecture have experienced unbelievable hardships from tsunami destruction, nuclear contamination, and afterwards, […]
Renewable Energy in Fukushima
Fukushima Prefectural Government declared 100% renewable energy one year after the nuclear accident. It means the prefecture will produce energy by the renewables more than it consumes by 2040. Soma IHI Green Energy Center Japanese engineering giant IHI launched the Green Energy Center in Soma City, intending to integrate solar power generation with business development. Electricity generated […]
To Viewers of Netflix’s Dark Tourist
Thank you for showing an interest in our area of Fukushima. If you are interested in visiting, please first read the following guidelines: Our tour takes you into the current exclusion zone with an official permission. This provides a level of honest insight which is absent from Netflix’s show. Entering buildings in the way demonstrated […]