Hashima Island, Japan, was once a bustling hive of activity - but its sordid past has rendered it uninhabitable.

Kimura says that he is often told by people to whom he gives tours of the city from around Japan that they too have many decaying, abandoned buildings and vacant houses in their own hometowns. Nozawa ...

Like many places in Japan, Omishima is also very safe ... bought — which is two minutes away — into their home. "It was abandoned for 40 years, so it has a lot of work needed," Dani said.

Dreamland is a theme park located in Nara, Japan which opened in 1961 ... the newer attraction and was eventually closed and left abandoned in 2006. Many of the props, rides and games were ...

Today, the battleship-shaped land mass sits completely abandoned on westcoast Japan - with tourists drawn from far and wide to explore its eerie ruins. Initially a small-scale coal mining ...

Tucked away in Japan’s countryside, millions of abandoned homes – known as akiya – sit empty, waiting for a second life. With property prices often shockingly low, these forgotten houses ...

By the mid-'70s, the Japanese mined all the coal and ... and any photography requires a permit. While many abandoned buildings are spooky places to visit, this one is a mystical affair.