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30 Undiscovered Images From Japan’s Creepy Abandoned Island
1. A dark silhouette of the island...
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As you approach Hashima Island by boat, you can see the haunting dark silhouette of the island which has been abandoned since 1974. The grey concrete buildings surround by the murky waters makes this deserted island feel like a scary place to visit….
2. The operating theatre
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This image of an old operating theatre in the hospital on Hashima Island is giving us the creeps…it is strange to think this is where medical procedures once took place back in the 1900s. The room has now become rusty and decayed, with rubble lying on the ground.
3. A child's bike
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This rusty broken bicycle would have belonged to a child who once lived on Hashima Island before it was abandoned. This represents the forgotten community who once called this island home, before the coal mines were closed down and everyone departed.
4. The eerie school
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Although the island was only for coal miners, as the working population grew entire families were soon permanently living on Hashima. This meant that they needed a school to be built on the island for children to attend each day and receive an education.
5. Fishing on the shore
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Here we can see a man fishing off the shore of Hashima Island, which puts the size of the infrastructure into perspective. The ocean barricade and grey concrete buildings tower over him, making the man seem like a small figure merging into the background.
6. The ruins
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This image shows a man being photographed standing in the walkway between two of the large tower blocks on Hashima Island. The rubble below him makes the image look like a scene from a bomb site, with only grey walls and empty black windows surrounding him.
7. The abandoned TV
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This image was taken in one of the abandoned rooms in the tower block dormitory buildings where the coal miners would have stayed back in the 1900s. The small TV screen on the stand with an old fashioned telephone on the floor marks the ending era of this town.
8. The coal mines
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This ghostly image shows the ruins of the coal mines which were once the most important feature of Hashima Island. They have now fallen to the ground surrounded by rubble, with the misty silhouette of another island in the background which can be seen through the fog.
9. Aerial view
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Although Hashima is a well-known island off the coast of Nagasaki in Japan, there are another 504 uninhabited islands in the surrounding area. Hashima has become so well known because of the rich history it holds and the haunting ruined city that still stands.
10. A ghost town
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This eerie scene shows the crumbling buildings of Hashima, casting dark shadows across the island. It has now become known as one of the ‘freakiest’ places to visit in the world, which comes as no surprise when you see how scary the abandoned city has become.
11. Building 65
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This is ‘Building 65’ on Hashima Island, which would have been home to hundreds of coal mine workers who lived here back in the 1950s. At one point, the island was home to over 5,000 people which made it the most densely populated area of land in the world.
12. An abandoned coal mine
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This image shows the stairwell leading into one the coal mines on Hashima Island which were actively used until they were all closed in 1974. Thousands of men worked in these mines, which have now become crumbling ruins with rubble covering the floors.
13. Keep out!
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This striking image shows the great height of the ocean barricade which surrounds the entire island which protected people from the turbulent waves. It makes the island look like a high-security prison with the towering concrete buildings in the backdrop.
14. The rubble
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This image has been taken from a high point in one of the buildings on Hashima Island, which shows the extent of the ruins and all the rubble lying on the ground below. These high-rise tower blocks were once home to thousands of people, with views of the surrounding ocean.
15. Dormitory walkways
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Back in the 1950s this would have been the walkway of the dormitory buildings where the undersea coal miners and their families lived. Now the buildings have been abandoned for over four decades, with the ruins being completely undisturbed except by nature.
16. Approaching the island
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This image shows how Hashima Island looks now from afar. The eerie ruined buildings and black empty windows make it look like a movie set. It was actually the inspiration for the deserted island in the James Bond movie ‘Skyfall’ as they were unable to film on the real island.
17. High up above
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Although the island has been abandoned for over 40 years, it has only recently become a tourist attraction. It has sparked interest across the world, with people being desperate to walk around the unique sky-high buildings and ruined coal mines which has been frozen in time.
18. Bird's-eye view
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This bird’s-eye view image of the island makes it look like a scene from ‘Thunderbirds’, resembling Tracy Island which was setting for the popular TV series. It is crazy to think this was once home to over 5,000 people, as just a small dot in the vast ocean.
19. A city on the ground
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Although some of the buildings on Hashima Island are still standing, many have crumbled to the floor leaving just rubble and remains. This shows how built up the island was back when it was inhabited by a small population in the 1900s before it was abandoned.
20. An abandoned classroom
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This image is from inside one of the old classrooms in the school on Hashima Island. The room is now covered in dust and rubble, with the furniture being dismantled and ruined. The old chalk board is now on the floor, with the last markings still visible.
21. Don't get too close
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Hashima Island is famous for the great concrete wall that surrounds it, closing it off from the outside world and protecting it from the power of the ocean waves. The wall still stands tall today, guarding the ruined buildings of the abandoned city.
22. The abandoned kitchen
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If it wasn’t for the rubble and the ruins, you would believe that someone was still using this kitchen only yesterday. Featuring colourful patterned cloths, a kettle and several pans on the table top this was once the place where someone cooked their meals.
23. Desks in the school
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Another image from one of the eerie abandoned classrooms in the school on Hashima Island, this shows all the desks stacked up in a large room. This is where all the children would have sat each day to attend their lessons when the island was still inhabited.
24. A collapsed gymnasium
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As the islands population grew in numbers, it soon became a miniature city which featured many of the staple facilities people have on the mainland. This image shows the ruins of the large gymnasium which has now fallen to the ground in a heap of rubble.
25. The staff room
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The old staff room in the large school on the island has now become a ruin full of rubble, and you can barely see the floor. This is where teachers would have gathered at break time and at the end of the day, until everyone on the island left in 1974…
26. Taken over by nature
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This image shows a crumbling building which has been overgrown by green shrubs, a sign of now long the island has now been abandoned. In the background we can see the ruins of a large tower block which would have been where the miners and their families lived.
27. Work boats at the dock
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This is an old photograph taken back in 1956, which shows boats at the dock of Hashima Island. They would have been transporting goods to and from the island, as it was a seabed coal mining facility for nearly 100 years before they were closed in 1974.
28. The pier
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Here we can see men, women and children on the Hashima Island pier back in the 1950s. At the very peak, this tiny plot of land in the sea was inhabited by thousands of people who called the island home. However, people occasionally travelled back to the mainland.
29. A coal miner working
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This image shows a young man working in the coal mines on Hashima Island back in 1956. Many people made the big sacrifice to move to the island in the search for work, until Japan started replacing coal with petroleum and the coal mines started closing.
30. A family in the streets
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Although these images seem like Hashima Island has been abandoned for hundreds of years, it was still inhabited by thousands of people only half a decade ago. It may have been a small place, but this is where many children grew up before returning to the mainland.
