Hashima Island in the Nagasaki Prefecture ... leaving the shell of a once-busy and wealthy town in their wake. It was handed by the company to the city of Nagasaki in the early 2000s, and ...

While other countries have ghost towns, Japan has a whole ghost island! Hashima Island is located nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki. The island was developed by the Mitsubishi company in the ...

In 2015, Hashima received the designation of 'UNESCO World Heritage Site'. The most well-known ghost town in the world is Pripyat, which lies in Ukraine. When a portion of the Chernobyl Nuclear ...