Kitchen Type:Acrylic These kilns date to around

These kilns date to around 1889

A residential street climbs the hillside in Yubari

A row of derelict toilets lines a tiled wall inside Family School Fureai

The path once connected workers to their homes in the upper Nakatsugawa valley

Dust and stillness replaced the 65-foot oven and six thousand dozen rolls an hour

Kitchen Type:Acrylic These kilns date to aroundA rusted stove and sink sit beneath a thick layer of dust in a derelict kitchen of the Ogurawa settlement at Nichitsu Mining Village. The kitchen was once part of the company housing built by Nitchitsu to support the Chichibu Mine workforce. Metal extraction at the mine ceased in 1978; the last permanent resident left the settlement in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.