Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called “Gunkanjima” that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Check out the photo gallery, and description of this forgotten place.

“I was twenty-two when I first visited the island I had dreamed about ever since childhood. Much like a fortress built upon the sea, surrounded by high walls, the island possessed an air of a small kingdom, where its denizens boasted ‘There is nothing we don’t have here.’ They were right. They did have everything within their miniature kingdom – except a cemetery. But, the irony of it was proven by the passage of time. Already, the island had been doomed to turn into an enormous graveyard. Eventually, the mines faced an end, and in 1974 the world’s once most densely populated island become totally deserted. The island, after all its inhabitants departed leaving behind their belongings, became an empty shell of a city where all its people disappeared overnight, as if by some mysterious act of God.”

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