In recent years, Nagasaki Prefecture’s Hashima Island, better known as Gunkanjima, or “Battleship Island,” has become one of the most internationally famous sites in Japan. A coal mining center for ...

There’s a reason Gunkanjima is nicknamed Battleship Island. As you approach by tour boat, as we did a few weeks ago, the mysterious place, about nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, resembles ...

Hashima was abandoned in 1974 and left to the elements. Storms, time, and decay have resulted in collapsed buildings that feel inhabited by the ghosts of the miners who used to live there. Here's a ...

Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima, lent itself as a location for the 007 film Skyfall after producers were enticed by its sinister past. After being left to rot for 40 years, the dilapidated ...

Lying just off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, the little island of Gunkanjima first seems like the fortified home of ghosts. Surrounded by walls and with blocks of buildings close to each other, ...

Japan’s Hashima Island is better known as Gunkanjima, or “Battleship Island,” and it’s easy to see why. But this decaying city wasn’t destroyed in a battle; it’s an abandoned mining town that has been ...

Nicknamed Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, because of its shape, Hashima island has an eerie, sinister look, perfect for, say, a villain’s lair in an action movie. The inspiration for villain Raoul ...