What to do with a post-apocalyptic scene of devastation and decrepitude? Put it in Skyfall, the newest James Bond movie, and invite tourists to visit. The scene in question is in Nagasaki, Japan, ...

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 ...

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 was abandoned in 1974 and left to the elements. Storms, time, and decay have resulted in collapsed buildings that feel inhabited by the ghosts of the miners who used to live there. Here's a ...

This is the uninhabited Japanese island of Gunkanjima, alias Battleship Island, an abandoned place that has been registered as an UNESCO world heritage site since 2015. It now forms the subject of the ...

The island lay abandoned for 35 years before Mitsubishi gave it back to the city of Nagasaki voluntarily in 2002. It has since been added to UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites on the basis that it ...

AN EERIE island with a dark past of slavery is said to be the final resting place of up to 1,300 abused civilians and prisoners of war. Hashima Island, abandoned for 40 years and now deemed too ...

If you are intrigued by the ghostly deserted island that was featured in the latest James Bond movie Skyfall, you might be interested to learn that it is now available to explore in more detail thanks ...

MOST movie sets are more glitz and glam than ghosts and ghouls – but this spooky island proved the perfect lair for a James Bond villain. Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima, lent itself as a ...