Japan reopens city abandoned after 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown

While Okuma may have looked like a Japanese Chernobyl after the nuclear meltdown in nearby Fukushima, it is now rebuilt and its evacuation order has been lifted. Yet something eerie remains about the renovated ghost-town.

While other cities like nearby Futaba remain strictly off-limits, an advanced group of around 50 people have already returned to the mostly empty Okuma, where the government’s decontamination efforts have been concentrated. While this is a rather small portion of over 10,000 residents that had fled in the wake of the disaster, on Wednesday some 40 percent of the city was declared safe enough to be reoccupied permanently.

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Can't imagine why anyone would want to return there.