Battleship Island. It's a fantastic name for an unbelievable place. A place unlike any in the world. A tiny island, once home to 5,259 people with the highest population density in history, abruptly ...

There's no reason you would have heard of Gunkanjima, a tiny, barren island off the coast of Nagasaki. But Atlas Obscura has some incredible photos today about the ghost town it says was once the ...

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 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 ...

New Delhi: Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, meaning Battleship Island, is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nagasaki itself.

Hashima Island, also known as Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) for its silhouette, is an abandoned coal mining facility near Nagasaki. It was once one of the most densely populated places on the planet, ...

A TINY island in Japan that has been left abandoned for decades is now a cult tourist attraction, helped by it featuring as a lair for a James Bond villain. Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, ...

Japan's attempt to hold UNESCO accountable for whether it has properly fulfilled its promise regarding the registration of Hashima (端島·Gunkanjima) coal mine as a World Heritage site has fallen flat.