Google Street View has had its share of intrepid adventures — Antarctica, say, or Everest Base Camp. However, the Google Maps service has a sober side, too. Street View just unveiled startling images of Namie, a Japanese town firmly planted inside the evacuation zone described in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
Google mapped out part of the tsunami zone in 2011, but the recent images are far more wrenching — rubble, abandoned houses and not much else.
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Street View Creeps Through Post-Tsunami Japanese Ghost Town
Posted by: David Vranicar March 28, 2013 08:35 AMGoogle Street View has had its share of intrepid adventures — Antarctica, say, or Everest Base Camp. However, the Google Maps service has a sober side, too. Street View just unveiled startling images of Namie, a Japanese town firmly planted inside the evacuation zone described in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
Google mapped out part of the tsunami zone in 2011, but the recent images are far more wrenching — rubble, abandoned houses and not much else.