Road led sign a gravity-fed flour mill that

a gravity-fed flour mill that ran until 2009

concrete block walls covered floor to ceiling in graffiti tags

painted to replicate an 1880s American frontier town on a narrow riverside site in Nikko

corrugated roofing overhead

A charge crane hook at Port Kembla Steelworks

Road led sign a gravity-fed flour mill thatDry susuki grass pushing through cracked asphalt on the main road through the Ogurawa settlement, timber and corrugated iron buildings lining the right, power lines crossing overhead, dense mountain forest pressing in on three sides. The Ogurawa settlement sits in the narrow upper Nakatsugawa valley, where Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. built an entire community around Chichibu Mine. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.