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The building sits within a residential and commercial streetscape shaped as much by decades of cold winters as by the economics that emptied it

Tiered excavation terraces step down through the dolerite walls of Hornsby Quarry

A single laboratory tap extends from a tiled wall

sitting vacant for nearly a decade before demolition in 2018

The remains of a piano

Bottles dunes The building sits within aGlass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures, left behind when the last resident walked out in September 2006. Chichibu Mine and the company town built around it sustained families for decades before metal extraction ceased in 1978 and the settlement slowly emptied. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.