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Gunkanjima aka: 端島, Hashima Island ,軍艦島, Battleship Island

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Matthew
Seattle

Why I want to go to this place

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.


lazysupper
Tokyo

Battleship Island

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.