Two elementary schools and a junior high school were relocated back to a town in Fukushima Prefecture on Thursday six years after being moved in the wake of the March 2011 nuclear disaster.

Around 90 students attended a joint opening ceremony held at the newly constructed building housing the junior high school in the town of Naraha, most of which is within 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. An evacuation order for the town was lifted in September 2015.

"Our school life in Naraha, which we have long awaited, begins today. One day, I want to do something for my town," Hina Moue, an 11-year-old student at Naraha Minami elementary school, said in the ceremony.

The two elementary schools will hold their classes in the junior high school building for the time being.

Since January 2013, the students had been studying at a makeshift facility set up in a university site in the city of Iwaki, also in Fukushima Prefecture.

The junior high school building was under construction when the 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant.