Radiation dose rate: 10-13 microsievert an hour / 125 to 162 times above normal. The normal rate before the Fukushima nuclear disaster was 0.08 microsieverts an hour.

Trees and bushes fade as autumn creeps over a hill next to the 399 road. The provincial road meanders through rolling green mountains on the edge of the 20km exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Radiation levels along the road are very high following the triple meltdown, and it is unclear whether the people who have abandoned houses and farms for the less contaminated Nihonmatsu and Fukushima City will ever be able to return.