Gunkanjima island

Discover Civilizations on Instagram: "Gunkanjima Island - Nagasaki, Japan . Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town. FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD have a history as odd, or as poignant as Gunkanjima’s. The tiny, fortress-like island lies just off the coast of Nagasaki. The island is ringed by a seawall, covered in tightly packed buildings, and entirely abandoned - a ghost town that has been completely uninhabited for more than forty years. In the early 1

The Japanese island of Hashima, also known as Gunkanjima (or “war vessel”) because of its shape, falls under the Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. Used for quarrying coal, the island experienced extremely dense urbanisation accompanied by the highest populati…

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Nearly forty years after people, the Japanese island of Hashima is lifeless, sagging and absolutely uninhabitable to man, unless of course you're a crazed nemesis of James Bond, plotting to take down the British secret service. If you managed to get past the round-the-block queues outside of cinemas

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Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

OLYMPUS OM-D E-M1, Samyang 7.5mm f3.5 UMC Ultra Wide-Angle Fisheye This photo with the permission of Nagasaki City.