Bathroom Hall water Cold Storage at Blayney

Cold Storage at Blayney

A residential street climbs the hillside in Yubari

Sulphite Tank at Rozelle

throwing back a reflection of the decaying walls and silent machinery above

dust coating its plastic and metal fittings after years of disuse

Bathroom Hall water Cold Storage at BlayneyThe ablution block at Family School Fureai, Yubari: rows of faded green tiles lining the walls of empty cubicles, light cutting through a space that once served school children and, later, paying guests. Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu Co., Ltd. operated the converted former Asahi Elementary School as group lodging from approximately 1994 until 2006, when the city's fiscal collapse ended operations. Part of the Family School Fureai series.