Earthquake simulators have become tourist draws at disaster education centers nationwide, with a growing number of foreign visitors eager to learn about the hazards of life in a seismically active country.
With the number of foreign visitors rapdily surging, some of the centers have begun developing multilingual services.
In April, at the Ikebukuro Life Safety Learning Center run by the Tokyo Fire Department, some 30 high school students from Australia experienced a simulated level-7 quake — the highest on the Japanese seismic intensity scale — similar to the March 2011 one that devastated the Tohoku region.