Kyushu 2023 - Nagasaki Gunkanjima/Hashima Via Jupiter Boat

This is Jupiter, the boat that was going to take us to the cool island. I saw people boarding it, so we went to ask how to get tickets. The guide there told us to walk to the digital museum just a short distance away to enquire about tickets, so we did. This was the boat I wanted to take to Gunkanjima! Which translate to battleship island, or it's real name Hashima.

Lucky us! We got the last two tickets to board the morning boat ride. I was actually ok to wait for the afternoon ride, but the lady at the ticket counter told us that we can make it, and that the weather was good in the morning. So the thing about these boat ride is, they only sail if the weather is good. And to actually get to land on the island to explore it, you have to have good weather without strong wind or tide. So she told us we should go now since the weather in the afternoon trip is not guaranteed. So we got our tickets, and ran all the way back to the pier to board the boat! Yay! I was so high on adrenaline! I was gonna get to see the cool island I wanted after all! The ticket price wasn't cheap either, almost 30sgd? But it was one of those places that only exist here and now..... so YOLO!

As the boat sailed out from the harbour, we were allowed to wander outside the boat to look at the view. 

We saw the cool bridge that we saw early on our morning walk too.

As well as some Easter Island looking figurine at some of the land area. I thought that was rather hilarious and freaking cool! 

But I thought these shipyard was really cool. I've never seen so much metal on the water before. And we get to see them quite up close too. When I saw these, my mind was racing on about sci fi anime. So this is where it was all based on! Imagine watching an anime, or reading some Japanese fiction where you can only imagine it in your mind, and then finally getting to see something similar to it in real life. It was like fantasy coming to life! A very surreal feeling, at least for me :P

The shipyard forms a very large area, and has been there for a long time.

Some of the ships kinda looked like battleship. So fitting since we were headed to battleship island! All the metal and fire going on out there to build all these gigantic floating tin cans! Lol. Almost Lord of the Ring vibe where the Orcs were building an army, with weapons from fire and steel!

It was just a short ride, maybe 40minutes? And we soon spotted the surreal island.