Abandoned Hashima Ghost Island in Japan

In Japan, near Nagasaki, there is an abandoned ghost island of Hashima, which in the 1930s was considered a large industrial part of the country, and at the same time the most densely populated island in the world. In 1810, large deposits of coal were found here, because of which the particularly rapid development of Hashima began. However, by 1974, all 5,259 people of local residents left the island, making it a floating ghost, filled with buildings that were being destroyed from time to time. Hashima initially looked like a huge rock, but after mining, he acquired a completely different shape.

If you look at the island from above, you can see that it resembles a military ship, for which it got its name - Gunkanjima, or "cruiser", if translated from Japanese. For half a century, the ghost island was a closed object, but now the entrance here has been opened to all comers. In the future, the Japanese authorities plan to turn Hashima into a museum of culture and life of miners.