Public Bath lamps needles resting mid-scale

needles resting mid-scale

Inside Western Village

Rows of chairs fill the dress circle of Marina Picture Palace

its painted walls peeling back through layers of colour applied over nearly a century of continuous use

A bedroom chair sits in one of Seika Dormitory's lower-floor rooms

Public Bath lamps needles resting mid-scaleRusting pipes trace the walls of the public bathhouse at Nichitsu Mining Village, broken tiles scattered across the floor beneath. This shared facility served the Ogurawa settlement's workforce under Nitchitsu Co. Ltd., where workers without private bathrooms in the concrete apartment blocks came to wash after shifts underground. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.