Entrance hospital still arranged as though a

still arranged as though a meal might yet be served

A tatami room in the company housing of the Ogurawa settlement

The space sits within a factory complex that produced glass on this site for over 100 years

Plant Room at Yarraville

Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu

Entrance hospital still arranged as though aSunlight breaks through dense mountain canopy onto a concrete entrance structure within the Ogurawa settlement, the residential community that served Chichibu Mine for decades. Foliage presses in from all sides, reclaiming the path. The Ogurawa settlement was uninhabited by September 2006, when the last permanent resident left. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.