Bathroom Hall water A residential street climbs the

A residential street climbs the hillside in Yubari

dust coating its plastic and metal fittings after years of disuse

Yubari's population peaked at around 107

its lower facade clad in overlapping weathered timber boards gone grey with age

purpose-built in 1947 for Automatic Totalisators Limited

Bathroom Hall water A residential street climbs theThe 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.