Sports Storage bathurst Glass bottles line a wooden

Glass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures

stands directly alongside a newer utilitarian structure in a Yubari streetscape

A timber-framed house stands alone on an exposed hill

light falling through broken windows onto dust-covered surfaces

Dry susuki grass pushing through cracked asphalt on the main road through the Ogurawa settlement

Sports Storage bathurst Glass bottles line a woodenA storage room inside the former Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School holds rows of sports nets, balls, and bats, left where they were when the building stopped accepting guests in 2006. The school itself lasted only eight years, opening in 1975 as a consolidation of three predecessor schools and closing in 1983 as Yubari's coal economy hollowed out the city's population. Part of the Family School Fureai series.