Suntory furnace A timber-frame building

A timber-frame building

The dock sat at the operational edge of a factory that had been producing glass continuously since 1890

in the mid-1990s

Sunlight throws long shadows across dusty floorboards

A vernacular slab-timber farmstead

Suntory furnace A timber-frame buildingA faded green fascia bearing the SUNTORY name in white raised lettering runs across the upper half of a rendered commercial building in Shimizusawa. Below it, three rolled metal shutters face cracked asphalt where two small cars are parked. The building operated as a liquor distribution outlet in Yubari, a city that once supported over 100,000 residents at its coal mining peak. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.