Gunkanjima Landing, Nagasaki

In the General Office building there was even a large communal bath for the miners.

There were many other building around the office of course; however, most of them have collapsed in the meantime, at least partly.

Coal storage conveyor belt, on which the coal was once transferred to the storage facility

Only the braces of the conveyor belt survive today.

Ruins of the jetty at the entrance to the second mine

Natural decay

One of the old mine buildings in state of decay

The so-called No.30 Apartment, constructed in 1916 and known as "Glover House"; it is Japan's oldest 7-story reinforced concrete apartment building and served as housing for Hashima's miners.

Another view of the No.30 Apartment (right) and the No.31 Apartment (left); a communal bath was placed in the basement of the No.31 Apartment, where there were also a post office and a barbershop on the first floor.

Hashima's sea wall. Stone walls of this type are held together using an adhesive called "Amakawa".

As the island was expanded in the Meiji Period, more sea walls had to be built.

Leaving Gunkanjima, the "battleship"