Gift Shop picnic tables Bunkyo-ku held residents for 80

Bunkyo-ku held residents for 80 years before a July 2007 fire displaced the last 40 households

stained and cracked beneath rusted taps

Heavy industrial machinery

Dusty tables and chairs sit undisturbed inside a company dining room at the Ogurawa settlement

Broken window panes admit the only light

Gift Shop picnic tables Bunkyo-ku held residents for 80Empty shelves line the walls and a dusty counter runs the length of the abandoned gift shop at Western Village, Nikko. The room sat at the commercial edge of a frontier town built from timber false fronts and painted facades, where visitors once bought souvenirs before the park closed on 7 December 2006. Part of the Western Village series.