Gunkan-jima island cruise, in Nagasaki-prefecture

 

The cruise ship take you exploring Tachibana bay from Nagasaki port and landing on 

Hashima island. The site has been registered on UNESCO World Heritages as Sites

of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution.

Now Hashima is a ruins called “Gunkanjima”, so called after its resemblance to the

silhouette.  Hashima Island is located 3 km southwest of Takashima, and it was the

success of Takashima that led Mitsubishi to purchase this island, both islands giving

access to the same undersea coal deposit.

Hashima coal mining island is an artificial reclaimed island and the site of Japan’s first

major undersea coal exploitation pioneered by Mitsubishi – and host to one of the world’s

most extraordinary former mining communities.

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