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Bookmark or Share- Touring Abandoned Hashima Island (AKA Gunkanjima/Battleship Island ...Adventure out to Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) Give yourself the James Bond experience with a visit to the movie-famous Battleship Island, just off the coast of Nagasaki. Once home to over 5000 people, it's now an abandoned ruin and visitors are finally allowed to explore. Click here for details.
- Gunkanjima Island (Battleship Island) - Nagasaki Travel - japan-guide.comGunkanjima (軍艦島) is a small island located about 20 kilometers from Nagasaki Port. Until 1974, the island served as a coal mine, and more than 5000 residents called the 480 meter long, 150 meter wide island home, resulting in the highest population density in history recorded worldwide.
- Gunkanjima: Ruins of a Forbidden Island - GakuranmanGunkanjima – every urban explorer’s dream. A deserted island of concrete ruins slowly crumbling away off the West coast of Japan. Travellers have long been forbidden to land there and view the secrets within its walls. But with an awesome guide and a little luck, I was able to do just that. Here’s my story.
- Hashima Island - WikipediaHashima Island (端島, or simply Hashima, as -shima is a Japanese suffix for 'island'), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島, meaning 'Battleship Island'), is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres (8 nautical miles) from the centre of the city. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.
- Hashima (Gunkanjima) | Travel Japan - Japan National Tourism ...Lying nine miles from mainland Nagasaki, Hashima—or Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) as it is more commonly known—is the most famous of Nagasaki's 505 uninhabited islands. Given the nickname for its battleship-like silhouette, the eerie island and its former coal mine are one of Japan's most unlikely tourist attractions.
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