Dark tourism brings light to disaster zones
Before the huge tsunami virtually wiped it off the map in 2011, Rikuzentakata's pristine beach and luxuriant pine forests were a well-worn stop on Japan's tourist trail.
(AFP) Before the huge tsunami virtually wiped it off the map in 2011, Rikuzentakata's pristine beach and luxuriant pine forests were a well-worn stop on Japan's tourist trail.
Now the visitors are coming back, but this time they want to see the devastation and the monuments to those who died, the latest example of a phenomenon dubbed "dark tourism" where holidaymakers pay to witness the aftermath of others' misery.
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