Hashima island

 

  It all started in 1890 when the Japanese company Mitsubishi bought the island and began coal mining project in  undersea mines being increasingly inhabited by their workers.

With the substitution of coal for oil in Japan during the 1960s, the mineral extraction mines began to be closed nationwide, so Mitsubishi officially announced the closure of its activities on the island in 1974, and the place It has been completely evacuated, becoming known as "Ghost Island".