People have slowly started making their way back to Fukushima, years after the earthquake and tsunami disaster that took place in the region. The cleanup is still ongoing though and is years away from being over, but there are a growing number of people who have started moving back to the region over fear that they would lose their housing subsidies.
It is still going to be a very long road to full recovery, but slowly there are efforts being made to try and bring life and commerce back to the area.
One Fukushima inn, known as the Yumori Onsen Hostel, has taken to drastically cutting their prices and amenities in an attempt to attract tourists to the area. To stay overnight at this hotel it's estimated to cost around $31 US or 3,500 yen.
They are taking a different approach than some other hotels in the region, who have opted to embrace offering a myriad of services that might attract tourists back to the hotel. For the Yumori Onsen, they plan to be fully operational by December after only starting their trial operations in early October.
It's not going to be easy to attract people back to the Fukushima region, it could take a great deal of time before they have a thriving economy in that region again.
Due to the labor shortage in the area, it's reported that Japan Post Co. has now turned to using drones to conduct deliveries in the region. It's alleged that the drones will be making deliveries at least 6 days every month and they've already started officially delivering to Fukushima.
For now, it's believed that the drones will only make deliveries for their own Japan Post Co. documents and advertisements; traveling between 2 different post office locations in the Fukushima region.
It will likely be making at least 2 round-trip delivery missions every day.
Whether it's mail, pizza, groceries, or cannabis, various entrepreneurs worldwide have been eagerly pressing toward the prospect of having drones make all kinds of deliveries right to our doorstep.
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