Matthew
Seattle
Why I want to go to this place — 9 months ago
Really awesome set of photos from Gunkanjima here:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/gunsu/thumbnail.html
Apparently it’s not currently open to visitors.
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lazysupper
Tokyo
Battleship Island — 2 years ago
Nicknamed due to its resembling a battleship, Gunkanjima is among the 500+ uninhabited islands west of Nagasaki Prefecture. In the late 1800s it a coal mine and city was established on the island. In 1959, its residential area population density was almost 14 people per acre (3460/km²), supposedly the highest population density ever recorded worldwide. It was abandoned when the mine closed in 1974.
