#gunkanjima

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Gunkanjima

A recent trip to the Nagasaki coast...

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The most despotian building,

Hashima Island,

Japan.

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Hashima Island, Nagasaki, Japan,

Image Courtesy: Media Drum World

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Sunset over The Hashima island.

Nagasaki, Japan.

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For @todayintokyo, who likes Nagasaki seaside but doesn’t want to see fish ;) A delicious rice flour bread roll for breakfast on a short boat tour. We went to see this island, which is officially named Hashima but commonly known as Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) because, well, look at it!

Hashima is now a ghost town, but it was settled as an offshore mining facility in the late 1880s and abandoned upon the depletion of coal in the 1970s. It is a super eerie place to visit, and entry/tours are strictly regulated both because of rough sea conditions and because the buildings are in such a state of disrepair. We visited two days after the very serious Typhoon 14, so we were unable to go ashore this time, but I should dig up my pictures from 2010......

[shihlun]

Ben Rivers (with text by Mark von Schlegell)

- Kanzennashima (from "Slow Action")

2010

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Through a ruined window #nagasaki #japan #travel #traveljapan #photography #travelphotography #dslr #dslrphotography #travelblog #photoblog #photooftheday #beautifuldestinations #trip #gunkanjima #hashima #ruins #island #abandoned https://www.instagram.com/p/CNmGowqnqTr/?igshid=4oge68jnr8l6

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