Category: Japan
Google Street View show new images from nuclear evacuation zone
New images are now available on Google Street View from the 2011 tsunami and earthquake-affected areas in Japan. This is the entrance to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Google are also publishing imagery of new areas within the Fukushima Exclusion Zone, including the abandoned towns Ōkuma and Futaba.
– We hope that providing this new street-level imagery on Google Maps can make the memories of the disaster relevant and palpable for future generations, says Kei Kawai, Group Product Manager, Street View.
Futaba Machi, Fukushima Prefecture:
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Peace from Japan
Japanese baseball players climb Mount Fuji.
Google Street View now lets you climb Mount Fuji
Google Street View visits deserted “Battleship island” from Bond movie Skyfall
Hashima Island (aka Battleship Island) in Japan was featured in the Bond movie Skyfall as the hideout Dead Island. Now Google Street View came to the deserted and creepy island. The place concist of destroyed post-war buildings – a ghost town where nobody has lived since 1974.
Mitsubishi Corporation own the island and originally used it for coal mining.
The “Pidgeonheads” saga continue….
Creepy Pigeonheads watching Google Street View in Japan
View from Great Seto Bridge – Japan
Kazurabashi Bridge – Iya Valley, Japan
This is a suspension bridge made of mountain vines (kazurabashi).
Great Barrier Reef Dining in Tokyo
A restaurant in Tokyo welcome guests with this view at the entrance.
