Main Entrance box serving first as a tuberculosis

serving first as a tuberculosis facility for male patients and later as a hospital for the aged and chronically ill

rust working across every metal surface

The hatch is one of dozens securing the earth-mounded explosive storehouses built across the depot from the 1920s onward

Weathered timber walls and broken windowpanes mark a farmhouse now open to the sky

The plant closed permanently in August 1988

Main Entrance box serving first as a tuberculosisSunlight cuts through the main entrance of Family School Fureai, picking out dust motes and the peeling paint of a faded sign above worn steps. The reinforced concrete building opened in 1975 as Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School and was converted to group lodging in the 1990s before closing in 2006. Part of the Family School Fureai series.