A few amazing pictures on archibase.net, showing the remains of Gukanjima, a city covering a small island, off Japan’s shore. There is something instantly capturing the mind about ruins of cities, be it as ancient as Angkor Wat, or as recent as Chernobyl.

The pictures of Gukanjima look like a disaster, the end of a civilisation, and in a way, it is: coal mining coming to an end, man exhausting resources…

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