Everyday Living Advice (Disaster Prevention)
How to Protect Yourself in Times of Disaster (Video)
Taking the recent great disaster as a lesson, Fukuoka City is promoting both hard and soft disaster prevention counter-measures to make the city a safer place for its foreign residents. If an earthquake or flood should occur, what should you do to protect yourself and your family?
To minimize damage, we have created a movie that introduces disaster preparedness which we think foreign residents should know about.
Earthquakes/ Tsunami
Typhoons/ Floods
Disaster Prevention Map
Contains information on how to prepare for wind/flood disasters and earthquakes, contact information for evacuation shelters, etc.
- Disaster Prevention Map ※Japanese
Ward Versions of each map
- Higashi Ward ※Japanese
- Hakata Ward ※Japanese
- Chuo Ward ※Japanese
- Minami Ward ※Japanese
- Jonan Ward ※Japanese
- Sawara Ward ※Japanese
- Nishi Ward ※Japanese
Disaster Prevention Map
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- Fukuoka City “Flood Hazard” and “Disaster Prevention” Map
- Please enter necessary information!
- Prepare on a daily basis for a disaster!
- Get disaster prevention information by mobile phone!Fukuoka City Disaster Prevention E-mail
- Evacuation shelters & evacuation sites
- Prepare for a disaster!
- When an earthquake occurs!
- Countermeasures for your house against wind and flood damage & earthquakes!
- Remember! Emergency messaging service
Flood Hazard Map
Displays areas that may flood during heavy rains.
- Flood Hazard Map ※Japanese
Ward Versions of each map
Flood Hazard Map
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- 10 Hints on Evacuation
- Purpose and Content of the Flood Hazard Map
- Where should we evacuate to?
- What is a Flood Hazard Map?
- Where to contact in the case of flooding
- How to obtain information on disaster prevention
- Evacuation shelters & evacuation sites
- Information regarding evacuation
- Regional deployment of sandbags
- Things to know about flooding
* The Disaster Prevention Map/Flood Hazard Map are distributed at Joho Plaza (1st floor of Fukuoka City Hall), Ward offices, and the Disaster Prevention/Crisis Management Department (7th floor of Fukuoka City Hall).