Somehow it makes me feel sad and lonely. Even a leftout feeling. Ugh. Feels like those leftout dolls and shoes. I dunno. I just feel that.. And the song really build up the atmosphere too!

I like the sound of this dramatic sad music, it really goes well with this video. Good work! ;)

I love the sad dramatic music goes well with it. Great video thanks :)

You guys should understand that during the world war2, many Koreans and Chinese were forced to work in this island and they worked in the most poor conditions, such as working in the deepest mine without safety. Forced laborers couldn't even live in those apartments that you can see in here. Many of them died during the escape. There were horrible war crimes going on sponsored by Mitsubishi at that time.

why dont anyone try to fix places up like this to make them a paradise dispite the horror and cruel past of places like this?

We have added the lyrics to the song description. Enjoy!

Wow..... Would b a good place to get away from wars and also apocalyptic situations

needs preserving as soon as possible .the importance of this small island from histories point is absolutely critical . it wont last much longer by the look of it . I think the dereliction is sad yet achingly beautiful , it sort of puts me in touch with everything and everyone who ever lived , sounds stupid but its the way I feel . it gives a strange feeling of understanding ,of realizing that everything passes , nothing is still everything is in a phase of decay and it reminds us that as humans we have a short time on this planet , its been said many times and its so true . to walk the empty streets of this island, to breathe the air , the scent of the flowers on the vines and to feel the sun , and the sea air must have been wonderful . we all love life , we all fear death , that's the way with all living things great or small . peace to all ...live it while you can .

I thought it was actually kinda beautiful, there was something rather majestic about it :-)

truly breath taking. amazing how the world will swallow up something when its forgotten

Beautiful

This is not ghost island. In 1974 coal mining ended of Hashima's. The families in the island were so happy until close coal mining. There were so many children, and elementary school and middle school and high school were provided for them. We can see the document video of gunkanjima as old living document between 100 years. Coal miners pleasure was public bath and pachinko game, water pool and tv.

Thanks for this

Until 1974, people of Gunkan-jima had been a family each other. But they had have to leave the island suddenly.The co al miner's children enjoyed together after the school study every day. Children's loud voice did not stop until sun set in every day. It was peaceful island.

Can some be kind and share with me this song?! :O Thank you for making this video

J'adore bien la chanson ... elle est tres belle

Over 500 of South Korean were forced labors for mine industry in this island. About hundreds of people were died out due to the selfishness of Japan. The real glory days of Hashima is from 1910~, even in 1941, 41tons of coal were extracted from this island. Japan regeistered Hashima as a UNESCO without mentioning the period of pain and suffer. This island become a ghost island due to the victimized soul of Korean who were treated unfailry and miserably.

They Should Rebuild Again those Things In proper Manner Japan have Huge Money They Can Build Up

And then they make a game about a zombie outbreak prior to the island's evacuation, where the whole place is in anarchy and the mines are what unleashed a biological gas.

So only because the music is beautiful I have to say this video is inspirering?

Its amazing how many remnants of the not so distant past still exist without peoples knowledge, ha, i dunno, its nice to visit them every once and a while, if only virtually :)

Mesmerising in its sadness of the loss the inanimate objects have seen

Pretty song

1:11 to me,it was beautiful..

Im hear again for the music

Whats so mysterious about this Island? They left cause the mines were shut down!

Sad place.. Thats makes me wonder how cruel world is... The background music me feel sad too..

Amazing video......I learned about ghost island only last week, never knew about its existance. This video is just mesmerising.....at the beauty and sadness of this island.

This island, at least from the image at 3:13 looks like it would be idyllic and peaceful to live there, or at least beautiful location. Now, I don't know how it looked like before they abandoned it.

I now know my bug-out location for the zombie apocalypse.

Awesome music!

I've always wanted to go there i be also always wanted one of those bikes ahha

I think this place was once a wonderful and beautiful city during that time.

This world is truly messed up and looking back at what happened its just awful and even now things are still bad

Thanks.

It has been the best video I have ever seen... Hi I am from South America and I would like to know the lyrics of that beautiful song.... PLEASE PLEASE

Belle chanson. ^^

The girl and the island look beautiful :) dope video I wanna go there one day so bad..chilling on top of a 9 story abandoned apartment building on a small deserted island..that'd be tight haha

Hey, there was my boots i forget it :D

เกาะฮะชิมะ, ประเทศญี่ปุ่น ‘ฮะชิมะ’ เป็นเกาะที่ถูกสร้างขึ้นในปี 1887 โดยบริษัทมิตซูบิชิสำหรับเป็นที่พักคนงานเหมืองถ่านหิน เคยเป็นเมืองที่มีประชากรหนาแน่นที่สุดเมืองหนึ่ง โดยมีประชากรอยู่ราวๆ 5,000 คน จนพลังงานจากถ่านหินไม่เป็นที่นิยม เนื่องจากมีน้ำมันเข้ามาแทนที่ เหมืองจึงถูกปิดตัวลงในปี 1974 พร้อมกับเกาะฮะชิมะ และผู้คนก็ทยอยออกจนเหลือทิ้งไว้แต่ตึกรามบ้านช่อง และบรรยากาศที่ดูวังเวง

Thanks for the vid and u look beautiful by the by

5:20 Steve McQueen, Alain Delon, Audrey Hepburn, Clint Eastwood... Who's the blonde May 5 actress?

It looks like a very scary, spooky and sad place. And that melancholic, dramatical music... I feel unsafe now. :( Besides, Thai horror film is built about this creepy island not long ago.

Well done.

Prof Brandon Palmer(historian on Korea) studied almost all documents and articles during Korea was annexed by Japan and explains...【Labor System under Japanese Rule】"calling Japans use of Korean manpower a form of slavery fails on at least three counts:First,it does not account for the choices that Koreans had,whether it be to sign a contract or to change their employment.second,many Koreans recieved pay according to their contract.and third,the experiences of Koreans who worked in Korea are not adequately addressed.scholars who compare Korean wartime experiences to slavery generally limit their analysis to Korean coal miners in Japan,where conditions were worst.there is no question that slavelike conditions existed in some industries;indeed,many unfortunate Koreans(and Japanese) were subjected to severe exploitation and physical and mental abuse,and had no choice but to work without pay,all while living in squalid conditions-but their story is part,not the whole,of Koreas wartime experiences.""the first phase of labor recruitment in Korea was Company-Directed Recruitment(CDR).when direct hiing failed to secure sufficient numbers of workers,companies employed recruiting agents,many of whom were Korean.companies often paid commiddions to gather laborers.for exanple,agents for Hokkaido Coal and Steamer Company who recruited more than five workers in one trip recieved a cash bonus and travel vouchers from the company.recruiting agents were responsible for securing a signed contract between the laborer and the company-in fact,a number of recruiters bribed local officials(with money and women) to gather laborers for them.all too often,recruiters might promise higher weges than would be paid,agree to shorter contracts than were realistic,lie about the nature of the work.""the 1944 LMP brought nealy 300,000 to Japan,but the population grew less than 200,000,indicating a significant flow of Koreans back to Korea.the exodus of Korean labor from Japan suggests that Japanese industries allowed individuals to leave upon the completion of their contract or that scores deserted their workplaces to return to the peninsula.""in Japan,the government administered Korean Workers passports through the Mutual Assistance Society(Kyouwakai).once hired,the worker gave one passport to their employer,who held the passport to prevent the employee from deserting.many companies and workers ignored this system late in the war,allowing for the unofficial movement of Japanese and Korean workers." "when necessary,recruiters promised salaries that were double,even triple,peacetime salaries if recruits went to combat zones.Civilian employees of the military earned salaries between 50 and 120 Won a month-a hefty wage considering that the average policeman earned 18 Won a month,recruiters told young men that it would be better to volunteer and capitalize on the high wages-otherwise they might be conscripted and given a lower wages.this modus operandi indicates that coercion underlay many individuals' dicision to volunteer as civilian employees of the military and as laborers.nevertheless,high-paying positions resulted in competition among Koreans for skilled military civilian positions."

its like pripyat but still livable and not iradiated to hell

i love the background tune whats its name

The music is perfect with video

how did those people get on the island if its access is forbidden...

A weird thing..Every place on earth that is abandoned seems to be the richest οn germination..

Steve McQueen: Ohoo yeah.

nice inspiration.......

It was a sad and dark day when Godzilla attacked and destroyed the island and it's inhabitants...

I am sorry

wHY CANT PEOPLE STILL MAKE IT A HOME AS IT COULD BE DONE UP

I say re-open the place after seeing if more precious ores or minerals are here, who agrees?

that carcass of a four cylinder bike is the only interesting thing for me

looks like an aircraft carrier from back at sea

I need someone to visit this place

5:23 Movie poster for Le Mans with Steve McQueen

WHY ARE IS THE CALCULATOR'S KEYS CLEAN? (time on video: 4:31)

did you go there alone

How did u get into the buildings, i think they're suppose to be off limits...

what...old tv was made by metal?

Well, that's scary. i tell ya. i saw a ROOM FULL OF HORRIFIC SCARY NIGHTMARE-ISH DESTROYED DOLLS. Man, Get a Friend to go with ya.

m wondering wat wud have happened to that girl and the cameraman after visiting this island

Looks like Industria from Future Boy Conan

This so sad

anybody else thinking about the last of us

Wonderful footage but it would've been nicer to watch it with different bgm. The footage features Japanese island but french song as bgm..? hmm.. I mean I still like the music itself haha.

French. le miracle de l'amour by Adeyto

Or make it a naval garrison/fort it might pay off some day...

i wonder if anyone has ever thought about living is a abandoned places if no one has ever done this I would like to be the first

Janjira..Godzilla

Sad

look like last of us game

2:06 2:07 shit! Look at the left side, for a splitsecond! Somethings there!

2:56 Face on the water?

Imagine if this was all made up and it was an April fools prank

Never belive ghost

what a waste of time gone into the effort of buiding thos buildings!

attack on titan live action brought me here

who wants to see shoes?.. bye

trol lel lol

its sheer nonsense that Koreans call Hashima "Hell Island" or "Prison Island" of no return alive. North or South,Koreans exaggerate and fabricate whatever against Japan.like Japan eliminated Korean name and launguege from them.and Karate,Samurai,Ninja,Sushi,and from this year even the Cherry trees in Washington D.C gifted from Japan,S.Koreans allege they are all the Korean origin which Japan stole from Korea. when it comes to Hashima(aka Gunkan-jima=Battleship island by its shape),70% of the labors were Japanese working under the same condition as Koreans.its true the labor environment was so hard some people(both Japanese and Koreans) escaped before the contract finished.but most of them put up with such a heavy work for the high salary(4 times higher than Japanese officers). in 1916, the first reinforced concrete apartment in Japan was built there.next year the first recruitment in Korea was done and 150 were hired. in 1939,Korean households of 500 people willingly immigrated to Hashima(i wonder why they brought wives and kids to Hell Island). accordinng to the human rights organization to support Koreans in Nagasaki,they found the cremation permit.and it revealed all thorough the history of Hashima,122 Koreans died.this number includes the death of disease,and not only labors but also the family. Korean labors who got killed in the accidens at work were only 17 people when total number is 215.this means 198 victims were Japanese. this is because the most dangerous part of work was given to skilled and experienced Japanese coal miners to prevent accident. after 1944,Sep, 200 Korean labors(the then Japanese) were mobilized by the law called National Requition Ordinance. ethnic Japanese rightfully accepted it as the duty.but Ex-Korean Japanese call it "Forced Labor".since they decided to be victims of Japan hiding the fact over 300000 young men volunteered for Japanese army when Japan was leading the war.i would say this gap wont be coverd up forever. Hashima when many people lived. matome.naver.jp/odai/2138397239881040101 grapee.jp/39336