Exploring HASHIMA ISLAND - Early Footage of Japan's ABANDONED Island City 軍艦島
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2022
- Hashima Island is an abandoned island city off the southern coast of Japan. It was home to an undersea coal mining operation from 1887 to 1974. I explored Hashima - also known as Gunkanjima (軍艦島) or Battleship Island - and its off-limits areas in November 2011. At the time, just a handful of western explorers had been able to reach the island. I'm sharing the raw footage as an additional historic record of the island's history.
Featured in the video is our guide Ikumi Nakamura (aka TommyBoy) , who became known to the world for her Ghostwire: Tokyo presentation at the 2019 E3 conference.
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Past the Present Future is a film series by globally recognized photographer Chris Luckhardt. The series views the PAST through a lens in the PRESENT with an eye to FUTURE development.
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Chris Luckhardt has documented and photographed some of the most iconic and viral images of abandoned places around the world. He was among the first photographers to publish photos in the press from legendary abandoned places like Hashima Island, Nara Dreamland, Michigan Central Station, and Six Flags New Orleans. His body of work has led to interviews and collaborations with The White House, Netflix, Ford, GQ China, ABC News, Good Morning America, Scholastic Canada, Yahoo Japan, and many more. In 2016, the Obama administration invited Chris to photograph a private citizen "haunted" tour of The White House.
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Can I use it on my videos?
@@AlQurunUrdu My footage is available for licensing. Please contact me by email if you’re interested.
What gets me is that this was a place filled with life... in the 50's and 60's...workers doing their jobs, kids going to school...the apartments... now all empty and deserted. One can imagine being there at night...do the ghosts come? so sad that it's deserted and falling in to ruin. Cold and dark.
I know someone who camped on Hashima overnight. But they started a campfire and almost were caught when patrols noticed the smoke and landed on the island to check lol.
Fantastic footage! I'm trying to recreate this island in a game, and this video has helped greatly for the inner details
Hashima is a perfect setting for a game. Good luck!
The Battleship Island (2017, Korean movie) brought me here. the movie made me curious to know how's Hashima / Gunkanjima like nowadays. thanks for the video!
I'm glad you arrived at my video for the non-fiction version of Hashima's visuals and history. My video was filmed in 2011 but the island hasn't changed much apart from further deterioration.
Dang dude! I absolutely love this episode. Great edit, love the intro clips
Thanks! I almost took out the driving clip but I thought it set the mood for predawn exploring with a pair of Japanese and hearing GPS in their language. What’s funny is I can understand it now!
@@chrisluckhardt I really love that clip sets it up so nicely without saying a word
Nice job Chris. The video lis not stabilized, but looks HD. Amazing raw video.
Thanks! I tried some stabilizing plugins but didn't like the effect, so I left the footage as it was filmed, apart from upscaling. I'm going to offer it to the Gunkanjima Digital Museum for historical purposes. Maybe, in exchange, I'll ask for another landing on the island!
I wish videos like this existed for the Walled City of Kowloon.
Kowloon would've been an incredible place to explore and get lost in!
Can you go back here every 5 years and compare the changes and how the vegetation takes over the island??
I planned to go back for a 10th anniversary exploration but then the pandemic happened. But maybe soon it’ll happen…
@@chrisluckhardt totally looking forward to it man!!! God bless with all your endeavors
Dude being on that island at night would give me the biggest chills conceivable ...
Story time! The taller woman in the video returned a year later with a group to camp overnight. But they made a critical mistake by starting a campfire and patrols somehow noticed the smoke plume! They searched the island but fortunately the fools evaded capture. 😂
Hey Chris, just wondering how much did you have to pay to do this?. And how did you set this up? I’ve been wanting to visit hashima for a few years now and think it’s about time i do it.
This trip was 13 years ago, and my last one was 10 years ago, so most of my intel is obsolete. Many changes occurred after Hashima was awarded UNESCO status in 2015, including cameras and sensors being set up at various points around the island.
@@chrisluckhardt thankyou for the info
It is my dream to go here one day, is it much more difficult in recent times to sneak onto the island nowadays?
It’s significantly more challenging in the post-UNESCO era to get to the off-limits areas of Hashima. Officials placed sensors and cameras all over the island.
@@chrisluckhardt Thank you for the information, I guess it will be no more than a dream, though I get to feel what it's like thanks to your video!
Are there videos of when this island was inhabited? Mining videos?
I’ve seen archival footage on Getty Images showing the island before it was abandoned in 1974. And I recall the Gunkanjima Digital Museum having mining footage.
So like, did the people in an anger state completely destroy the place before leaving? Or is it that nature (earthquakes, heavy rain etc) ruined this place? I know typhoons caused damage but that doesn't explain the rubble in other parts of the buildings not near the water.
Excellent question! What you're seeing is 40+ years of natural decay after the island was vacated, earthquake damage, and weather events (e.g., regular weather and typhoons). Also, the island's population began declining in the 1960s as the mines were closing, so many buildings were unmaintained. Also, the Japanese rarely vandalize buildings and other structures. For example, no looting or vandalism occurred in the abandoned towns after the Fukushima disaster.
No Conbini?
Get out 😂
Why were all the doors and windows removed?
The doors and windows weren't removed. They were damaged or broken from four decades of neglect after damage from storms and winds. Most of the wood strewn about on the ground is from wooden doors, wooden window frames, and wooden railings.
@@chrisluckhardt ok cheers. It would cost lots of money to send a demolition team over there. So it looks like it will be there for another 40 years.
@@tugboat8475 Hashima became a UNESCO site a few years after I filmed this video, so they're trying to protect it without changing it.
this would make a good setting for a zombie movie
Look up the Thai film "H Project" (ฮาชิมะ โปรเจกต์ ไม่เชื่อ ต้องลบหลู่). It was a horror film made in 2013 on the island.
I heard, Koreans were slaves miners there. Very sad situation. I'm glad it's closed for ever if that's truth!
Forced labour occurred on Hashima Island during Japan’s colonial years (1910-45). And it occurred more toward those later years. Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese POWs were forced and paid to work in the mines and 7 other industrial sites. Korea claims approximately 1300 workers were forced labourers and Japan claims a lower number. The island’s peak population was 5259 in 1959. (Edited to correct a typo.)
What actually happened to this island 😢
Mitsubishi closed the mines and moved everyone off the island. Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the operation’s final day.
Is there is any touristers there ???
Tourists are able to visit the southern tip of the island on an official tour since 2009. My first two visits to Hashima were the covert method as seen in this video. But I did take the official tour for fun and to experience the public’s version of seeing the island.