To meet the diverse needs of summer travel, JR Central will operate the "Tokaido Lumiere Express" for the first time in August 2026, a special train on the Tokaido Shinkansen that departs at night and ...

Japanese have been growing rice since prehistoric times. Rice is the staple food in Japan, but at the same time it is heavy with sacred meaning. Tanokami, the rice paddy deity, is believed to arrive ...

Off the coast of Nagasaki, Hashima Island looks like a ruined concrete warship rising from the sea. At its peak, 5,259 people lived on the tiny island, making it one of the most densely populated ...

HOUSTON, TX -A seven-year-old girl in Lucknow stood in her backyard at dawn in October 1957, watching Sputnik streak across the sky. Nearly seven decades later, that child would help steer some of ...

A dramatically pitched roof with undulating eaves tops Office in Hashima, a workspace set among rice fields in Japan, recently completed by architecture studios Permanent and Atelier Nagara. Located ...

Explore the abandoned Hashima Island, Japan—also known as Battleship Island—through stunning drone footage. Once a thriving coal mining hub, this eerie ghost town now stands frozen in time, its ...

Hashima, better known as Gunkanjima for its silhouette resembling a battleship, is back in the spotlight thanks to content creator Alfon from the parkour crew WHAT. The YouTuber has released a new ...

As you may know, Gunkanjima (Hashima) has a rather 'wiggly' shape when viewed from a floor plan. Usually, reclaimed land in the port areas of large cities is almost rectangular or has a gentle ...

DayZ players on PC have been flocking to Hashima Islands to try out the new hotness in terms of modded maps. Once there, many are undertaking the map’s quest, which at one point requires you to obtain ...

Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, is facing renewed criticism for offering what observers called a “half apology” after admitting it had used fabricated footage in a documentary cited to promote ...

TOKYO >> On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on the verge of collapse stand clustered behind a high seawall. Though officially known as Hashima, the island is sometimes called ...

Originally, Hashima was a reef, with no vegetation. In 1890, it was developed into an artificial island to mine undersea coalfields by the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, founded by Iwasaki Yatarō. It supplied ...