Matsuya leichhardt This is the basic oxygen

This is the basic oxygen and continuous casting era of Port Kembla Steelworks

with classrooms refloored with tatami for overnight guests

peeling paint

The bar sat inside a purpose-built community venue at the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street

then as public group lodging under Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu Co

Matsuya leichhardt This is the basic oxygenThe Matsuya building stands on a quiet Yubari street, its faded signage and shuttered entrance intact above a footpath that sees little traffic now. Once part of the commercial fabric of a city that housed more than 107,000 people at its 1960 peak, it is one of many former businesses left standing as Yubari's population fell toward fewer than 6,000. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.