This is an aban­doned island mea­sur­ing 300 by 500 meters. The area was inhab­it­ed in the past, but after the dev­as­tat­ing tsuna­mi of 2004, local res­i­dents were forced to leave. The giant wave flood­ed res­i­den­tial build­ings, five peo­ple died, and 50 local res­i­dents went miss­ing. The author­i­ties feared a repeat of such a tragedy and decid­ed to reset­tle all 3,500 res­i­dents to a safer area. Since then, the area has remained aban­doned, all build­ings are grad­u­al­ly dete­ri­o­rat­ing under the influ­ence of time and nature.