The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum

If you want to know what happened in the 2011 Fukushima disaster this museum describes what happened, how they dealt with it and what’s it like now. The museum is very user friendly and has a great movie on a very large screen. You continue upstairs and see numerous pictures and a few videos. There is a viewing platform on the roof but you can not see the nuclear reactor because a hill blocks the view. Really put together well and worth seeing.

A true sharing and historical learnings to all in Japan. If you are around Fukushima, make sure to visit this new centre. They have a good cafe and mini restaurants too

On March 11, 2011, the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan with a magnitude of 9.1, registering as the fourth most powerful since modern day recording.

The disaster killed over 19k people and resulted in over $360 billion in damages.

It also caused the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown resulting in the evacuation of hundereds of thousands of people.

I had the opportunity to visit the town of Futaba in October of 2021, where many of the people who worked at the nuclear powerplant once lived.

Over 10 years later, they built a memorial museum but It was still a surreal experience.

Most of the buildings were still abandoned and they had Geiger meters everywhere to test the levels of radiation.

I was probably the first American to visit the museum and the Japanese attendant was actually confused yet surprisingly pleased that I had come.

I got to reflect and remember all the pain and suffering this disaster had caused the country.

The museum is open from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and costs ¥600 for adults to enter. You can also take a free shuttle bus from the station that takes you directly to the museum.

World-class memorial museum on par with the peace memorial museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Highly recommended as part of one's nuclear pilgrimage to Japan. Check out Real Fukushima study tours for excellent English language tours of the area by dedicated locals who are passionate about Fukushima's renaissance.

Nicely presented. The different sections are well defined.

Very detailed introduction of the disaster, with thousands of pieces showing the damages brought by earthquakes. Could have shown more about what lessons have brought to TEPCO and the Japanese government.

The staff is very helpful. I am the only English speaking guest, and he try his best to intro me the exhibition.

This is a new museum. The staff were very helpful. My husband and I were given tablets and an ear piece each so we could understand the videos that were in Japanese. The exhibits are interesting and informative. They are captioned in English as well as Japanese. I encourage anyone interested in the history and legacy of the Triple Disaster to visit this museum.

Very well done! Gives perspective oh how devastating the earthquake, tsunami, and accident had on this reagion.

Wow! New and very well designed museum. Tons of information on the earthquake and ensuing tsunami and nuclear disasters. English translations for almost all the exhibits. I’d plan on spending 3 hours here if you’re the kind of person that likes to read.

An amazing museum which is very informative and is set out in a very organised way.
As an English tourist I cannot praise them enough they have iPads with ear pieces that you play through the theatre parts.

Great museum about the tragedy at Fukushima Power Plant. Super nice and helpful staff.

Totally worth it to go,
Very interactive, everyone should go and pay respect. Only thing I would change: make the translation to English of technical mistakes done by incompetent management of the power plant and focus a little bit more on this to help preventing that in future. Other then that, everything was superB! The workers there are very helpful, thank you very much.

Very well put together museum. A really moving experience.

The staff were wonderful and went out of the way to accommodate my lack of Japanese with translation iPad's available and bilingual staff coming to chat with me.

While going through the exhibit, I was speaking to a very kind attendant in the 1st room upstairs who shared his real life experience going through the disaster and losing his home to the tsunami.

I work in the energy resources industry and seeing the exhibit of how the team dealt with the situation was relatable and scary.

The gallery as you exit was much to emotional and I had to take a moment, beautiful photos of a terrible experience.

I visited in 2020, just a few months after it opened and I rented a car because public transportation was not convenient. Though the front-desk staff did not speak English, they were all very friendly and got me a tablet so that I could understand the exhibits more thoroughly than my intermediate Japanese would otherwise have allowed.
It was an informative and sobering experience and I enjoyed some shopping and lunch in the local stores afterwards.

Somber museum, stunning multimedia exhibits.

Really impactful and interesting for those who want to know about the whole story of the 2011 disaster. Friendly and helpful staff.

Really emotional a must if you want to have the history of the disaster

A lot of good information about the Tsunami and it's consequences!

2月初旬、金曜日の13時頃に伺いました（入館料600円）。館内はとても空いており、入城と同時に凄いシアターで映像を見せてもらいました。ここを訪れた大きな目的が、語り部さんのお話を聞きたいという事でしたので、その後急いで13：30～の語り部さんのコーナーに伺いました。その日はとても空いており、鑑賞者は我々だけでしたが、女性の方から40分余り貴重なお話を聞くことが出来ました。言葉の表現が難しいのですが、非常に興味深く且つ勉強にもなる本当に素晴らしいお話でした。
正直、別の方の口コミでも散見しましたが超豪華なシアターや建物、多種多様の展示物はあれど、ちょっとこの方向性は正しいのか？と思う部分もありました。もっと誰でも気軽に入れる金額で（未来永劫語り継ぐ施設です。国民全員が学ぶべき場所なのですから国の補助も出したらよいのでは？）、貴重なお話を聞かせて頂ける方へのお礼は増やして、そして最後の展示パネルは涙が出ましたのでああいった心に残るのを…云々とも思ったりしました。
時間の都合もあり1時間半では時間が足りなかったのも事実ですので、またいつか語り部さんのお話を聞きに伺いたいと思います。
ありがとうございました。