Vice Magazine came over all National Geographic for their latest issue with a brilliant article about Japan’s Battleship Island (Hashima Island), found an hour’s sail from the port of Nagasaki in Japan. It rocks (no pun intended) as well as any abandoned creepy island can do.
From 1887-1974 it was a coal mining facility owned by Mitsubishi Motors, and one of the most densely populated place on earth. Over 13,000 people crammed into every square kilometre of its residential high-risers. When the mine closed there was no longer any reason to live in the mini urban nightmare it had become and almost overnight the entire population fled back to the mainland. Battleship Island was left to rot.
It illegal to go anywhere near the place as it’s beyond restoration and totally unsafe. So thank you to Vice Magazine for these amazing images and bribery of Fisherman skills enabling them to reach it in the first place.
was this on the website only or in the magazine too? fucking cool..
[...] Auf der Insel ist es absolut unsicher, die Strafe für Betreten beträgt 30 Tage im Gefängnis sowie die anschließende Ausweisung aus Japan. Das Vice Magazine hats trotzdem getan, und die Bilder davon sind extremst geil. (via Cakehead Loves Evil) [...]
[...] their great illegal tourist destination post, Vice continues to nail the ‘Rough Guide on weapons grade narcotics’ [...]
This is kinda like that
http://www.viceland.com/wp/2009/06/communisms-pornographic-stronghold/
Ooooooooooh it has just been opened to the public – bring it on!
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20090421p2a00m0na011000c.html