Decaying Tuition Room trees Red Road at Australia and

Red Road at Australia and Japan

purpose-built for Automatic Totalisators Limited in 1947

The building sits wedged between newer structures

Weeds push through the platform where visitors once arrived to tour the wildlife park that grew from a 1967 television set

paint lifts from the counter in long curling strips and a single ceiling fixture hangs over dust that has settled across every surface since December 2006

Decaying Tuition Room trees Red Road at Australia andA solitary desk sits beneath peeling paint in the tuition room of Family School Fureai, a converted reinforced concrete school building in Yubari, Hokkaido. The building served as Asahi Elementary School from 1975 to 1983, then as a public lodging facility operated by Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu until 2006, when it was abandoned as the city entered fiscal rehabilitation. Part of the Family School Fureai series.