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Various views from the ocean and from on the island, 2016. Hashima Island (端島, or simply Hashima, as -shima is a Japanese suffix for 'island'), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島, meaning 'Battleship Island'), is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres (8 nautical miles) from the centre of the city.
Mitsukejima. Mitsukejima (見附島) is an uninhabited island in Suzu, Ishikawa, Japan.Because of its shape, it is also known as Gunkanjima (軍艦島, "Battleship Island"), which is also the common name given to Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture.
The latter name appears in 18th-century Japanese books. Siebold refers to Japanese coffee amateurs in Nagasaki around 1823. Japan's oldest piano was introduced by Siebold in 1823, and later given to a tradesperson in the name of Kumaya (熊谷). The piano is today on display in the Kumaya Art Museum (熊谷美術館), Hagi City.
Takashima, Nagasaki Takashima ( 高島町 , Takashima-chō ) was a town located in Nishisonogi District , Nagasaki , Japan . The town included the Island of Gunkanjima .
Hashima District, Gifu (羽島郡), a nearby district in Gifu Prefecture, Japan; Hashima Island (端島) (nicknamed Gunkanjima, which translates to "Battleship Island"), an uninhabited island in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, formerly home to a coal mining facility; Hasma, also known as Hashima, frog glands popular in Asia
In many contexts in Japan (government, media markets, sports, regional business or trade union confederations), regions are used that deviate from the above-mentioned common geographical 8-region division that is sometimes referred to as "the" regions of Japan in the English Wikipedia and some other English-language publications. Examples of ...
Site Municipality Comments Image Coordinates Type Ref. Iōjima Lighthouse Park 伊王島灯台公園 Iōjima tōdai kōen: Nagasaki: designed by Richard Henry Brunton and dating to 1871, the hexagonal lower part of the first Western-style iron lighthouse in Japan was rebuilt in reinforced concrete and with a square plan after damage in the atomic blast of 1945; the upper section is original ...
Nagasaki Prefecture (長崎県, Nagasaki-ken) is a prefecture of Japan, mainly located on the island of Kyūshū, although it also includes a number of islands off Kyūshū's northwest coast - including Tsushima and Iki. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 June 2020) and has a geographic area of 4,130 km 2 (1,594 sq mi).