An urban explorer snuck into the abandoned nuclear control room in the Fukushima red zone - and found it frozen in time.
Lukka Ventures, 27, has been exploring abandoned buildings in the UK for four years.
After watching a documentary on the Fukushima nuclear disaster he headed out to explore the 'red zones' - sites that have been closed off - around the nuclear power plant.
He snooped round abandoned hospitals, malls and apartments which he said were untouched by time.
On March 11, 2011, a earthquake and tsunami initiated a nuclear incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Three of the six nuclear reactors at the plant had severe damage and released hydrogen and radioactive materials and residents within 30 km of the site were ordered to leave.
Lukka, from Manchester, said: "It was a very surreal experience.
"Everything had been left, there were calendars on the wall were fixed on the same date of the disaster.
"You will walk into a building and there is stuff all over the floor.
"Animals have got in and tried to get food, you can see that the earthquake shook everything onto the floor."
Lukka, spent four days in the Fukushima red zones in Ōkuma, Japan, in February 2024, sharing his findings on his Youtube channel - @lukkaVentures
He carried a Geiger counter - an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation - to make sure he wasn't exposing himself.
He said: "We were sneaking through rivers and fences. We had to be really careful of how radiated some of the areas were.
"It was so so surreal. You would go into shopping centres and they would have food on the shelf.
"Everything has been left. Every building we went into was really weird."
Lukka found a nuclear bunker in what he believes was a training centre.
He said: "We entered a big glass building which had a model of the reactor in the lobby.
"We were close to the power plant that exploded.
"We walked around the building and there were rooms that had nuclear controllers in there."
Lukka said he found walking around the hospital a "scary experience".
He said: "I have never explored an area and be scared but the hospital was really scary.
"Seeing all the stuff, like bags, coats and other belongings gets you upset.
"I am not the type of guy to get upset but I did feel very sad walking around.
"The whole experience will stay with me forever."
Lukka Ventures, 27, has been exploring abandoned buildings in the UK for four years.
After watching a documentary on the Fukushima nuclear disaster he headed out to explore the 'red zones' - sites that have been closed off - around the nuclear power plant.
He snooped round abandoned hospitals, malls and apartments which he said were untouched by time.
On March 11, 2011, a earthquake and tsunami initiated a nuclear incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Three of the six nuclear reactors at the plant had severe damage and released hydrogen and radioactive materials and residents within 30 km of the site were ordered to leave.
Lukka, from Manchester, said: "It was a very surreal experience.
"Everything had been left, there were calendars on the wall were fixed on the same date of the disaster.
"You will walk into a building and there is stuff all over the floor.
"Animals have got in and tried to get food, you can see that the earthquake shook everything onto the floor."
Lukka, spent four days in the Fukushima red zones in Ōkuma, Japan, in February 2024, sharing his findings on his Youtube channel - @lukkaVentures
He carried a Geiger counter - an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation - to make sure he wasn't exposing himself.
He said: "We were sneaking through rivers and fences. We had to be really careful of how radiated some of the areas were.
"It was so so surreal. You would go into shopping centres and they would have food on the shelf.
"Everything has been left. Every building we went into was really weird."
Lukka found a nuclear bunker in what he believes was a training centre.
He said: "We entered a big glass building which had a model of the reactor in the lobby.
"We were close to the power plant that exploded.
"We walked around the building and there were rooms that had nuclear controllers in there."
Lukka said he found walking around the hospital a "scary experience".
He said: "I have never explored an area and be scared but the hospital was really scary.
"Seeing all the stuff, like bags, coats and other belongings gets you upset.
"I am not the type of guy to get upset but I did feel very sad walking around.
"The whole experience will stay with me forever."
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00:00oh my god
00:27look at this
00:44look at all these little bits here
00:45this is insane
00:52this place is gonna have to be knocked down there's a lot of damage to this place
00:56any damage oh my god that's a glove you know that's been sat there for like 14 years
01:07police
01:08oh look behind the desk look behind the reception desk in here oh my god i can't believe it
01:25there is so much stuff
01:27just look at everything guys
01:34you've never seen anything like it it's so quiet they get the odd bang off the wind
01:39got medical supplies absolutely everywhere guys
01:46we can hear a police siren
01:47absolutely littered with stuff
02:07picture there as well
02:14in this hospital too
02:17right god look
02:45and that's what it's saying on the radiation counter you can see it's an absolute time
02:48capsule inside you can see there
02:52look at this
02:53oh my god
03:04now this is gonna be a good one guys because this place is completely untouched from the
03:09disaster in 2011
03:15oh my god all the school children's bags are still here you can hear the music outside
03:22that is apocalyptic wow
03:27this is unreal
03:28look at all the trophies that i were just saying inside the cabinet all their shoes
03:35are left even around this side
03:38there's some wabaki still there that that person were probably not in school that day
03:47so that's one of the classrooms that we can't access because the door's locked
03:53mad there is some open classrooms upstairs i think maybe the teachers that yeah teachers
04:02i'm thinking that were back in the day when the school were first opened maybe all the
04:07teachers
04:29this classroom is just the same you've got all the uh the skipping ropes on the outside
04:35of the door all the books little plants that they used to uh they used to grow which have
04:41died
04:42look unreal oh it's all the crayons so they've got all all the crayons inside here and these
04:55are where all the pencil cases are and everything