22 Creepiest Abandoned Places Around The World

7. Tomioka, Japan

In this July 26, 2011 photo, abandoned shopping carts sit in the parking lot of a supermarket along highway 6 near Tomioka, inside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, in northeastern Japan. A year after a
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Thanks to the tragic Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant disaster, towns and cities within the 12 mile exclusion zone around the plant were left abandoned.

Problems with decontamination mean the area's future remains uncertain.

 
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