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Japan Injects New Life Into Fukushima with Nuclear Plant ‘Hope Tourism’

Annual visits to Fukushima Daiichi reached a record 20,542 in 2024 as tour operators package disaster-site trips for corporate clients.

Visitors flock to barely inhabited towns, attracted for the most part by the very catastrophe that drove their residents away.

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Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Transforms from Disaster Site to Tourist Spot: Tours of Contaminated Water Tanks and Damaged Buildings Offer a Tangible Experience of the Tragedy... More of an Educational Experience Than a Trip. As the Japanese government accelerates the restart of nuclear power while expanding the proportion of nuclear resources, it appears that the Fukushima nuclear power plant is transforming into a tourist destination.

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Japan’s Wrecked Nuclear Plant Becomes a Tourist Destination

‘Dark tourism’ emerges in tandem with return to atomic power

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Bloomberg broke the news in United States on Thursday, April 23, 2026.
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