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Hashima Island (端島, or simply Hashima, as -shima is a Japanese suffix for 'island'), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島, meaning 'Battleship Island'), is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres (8 nautical miles) from the centre of the city.
The Battleship Island: Directed by Ryoo Seung-wan. With Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-seob, Song Joong-ki, Lee Jung-hyun. During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
The Battleship Island (Korean: 군함도; Hanja: 軍艦島; RR: Gunhamdo) is a 2017 South Korean period action drama film starring Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub, Song Joong-ki and Lee Jung-hyun. It is a Japanese occupation-era film about an attempted prison break from a forced labor camp on Hashima Island .
Gunkanjima (軍艦島) is a small island located about 20 kilometers from Nagasaki Port. Until 1974, the island served as a coal mine, and more than 5000 residents called the 480 meter long, 150 meter wide island home, resulting in the highest population density in history recorded worldwide.
Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hashima Island — also known as Gunkanjima (“Battleship Island”) — has attracted attention for its post-apocalyptic, modern ruins. Here’s everything you need to know before visiting this Nagasaki prefecture destination.
Lying nine miles from mainland Nagasaki, Hashima — or Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) as it is more commonly known — is the most famous of Nagasaki’s 505 uninhabited islands.
Once the most densely populated place on Earth, the small island of Hashima has been deserted since 1974. From 1890, a thriving community lived on the island, extracting coal from an underwater mine near the island to provide fuel for Japan's growing shipbuilding industry.
Ha Island, abandoned coal-mining centre some 3 miles (5 km) offshore, Nagasaki prefecture, northwestern Kyushu, Japan. The island, nicknamed Battleship Island (Gunkan-jima) because its silhouette resembles a battleship, was bought and developed by the Mitsubishi Mining Company in 1890.
The mysterious abandoned island of Gunkanjima, also known as Hashima Island and Battleship Island, sits 16 km from the mainland of Japan. It’s a place of forgotten history and whispered legends, a secluded remnant of a bygone era.
Just off the coast of Nagasaki in southern Japan lies an island that, with its seawalls and clusters of grey apartment blocks, gives off the appearance of a battleship drifting at sea. However, Hashima Island (a.k.a. Gunkanjima or Battleship Island) is neither a ship nor the home of a bustling city.