Fukushima abandoned: Nuclear ghost town remains eerily frozen in time

This eerie electronics store within an abandoned nuclear ghost town looks like a post-apocalyptic scene with over $134,000 (75,000 pounds) worth of gaming consoles and goods left inside.
 
From Wii and PSP gaming consoles to supermarket goods and more, the preserved site in Namie, Japan, is more akin to TV show 'The Walking Dead' than real life.
 
With fully stocked shelves and cash 'most-likely' still in the tills after a nuclear disaster seven years ago forced residents to leave everything behind and rush to safety.
 
More than 200,000 inhabitants within a 20 kilometre radius were forced to evacuate, when an earthquake and tsunami disrupted the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
 
Compared to a 'ghost town' by Urban Explorer Bob Thissen, who visited the previously inaccessible area, with spots previously categorised as 'uninhabitable' due to the dangerous levels of radiation.

"The red zone is closed but still a lot of people are working in this zone, renovating or demolishing buildings. The orange zone is open at daytime and the green zone is ‘safe’ and always open. There are also people working in these zones."
 
Bob, who was filming for his YouTube series Exploring the Unbeaten Path, while visiting the location says police patrols made their visit especially difficult

But in contrast to most abandoned sites, the stores remain near-perfectly preserved and from what can be seen, Bob says no looting has taken place.
 
"In almost every country worldwide, such stores would have been fully robbed in days. Not in Japan, where people have a lot of respect for each other and other properties.
 
"There is a huge amount of police presence in these three areas and they patrol twenty-four-seven to keep curious people and trespassers out."

For this reason, gaining access to the area proved difficult.

"It was extremely hard to walk on the streets as two white tourists without getting noticed. When people saw us walking they called the police immediately.
 
"Police turned up sometimes with six cars while we were just walking on an open public road. We had to keep an eye on the patrols, get out of the car at the right time and had to go inside unseen, which was quite impossible in some areas. They are emptying a lot of stores."