Take A Tour of 007's Hashima Island With Google's Street View

Above, using Google's Street View, I got myself over to this spot on Hashima Island.

Hashima Island was once home to a coal mining facility until coal mining declined in the 1970s. The island was abandoned and its buildings were left to decay.

Not too many people heard about Hashima until the James Bond movie, Skyfall, used it for villain Raoul Silva's headquarters. Thanks to the movie, people are curious about the island and want to see it.

Now they can without leaving their living rooms.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Google Street View will now "take visitors" on a walking tour of the island.

They wrote:

Now Google has documented Hashima with its Street View imagery technology, shown above, and the company was even allowed to go into parts of the island that are off-limits to tourists.

Hashima is off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan and opened to tourists in 2009. I was in Nagasaki in 2007, but I never heard of the island until Skyfall. The island was still off-limits at the time of my Nagasaki visit anyway.

To read more and take your own tour of Hashima, go here.