Bathroom Hall water A dark upholstered armchair sits

A dark upholstered armchair sits against the corridor wall of the former Family School Fureai

purpose-built in 1947 for Automatic Totalisators Limited

A residential street climbs the hillside in Yubari

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

dust coating its plastic and metal fittings after years of disuse

Bathroom Hall water A dark upholstered armchair sitsThe ablution block at Family School Fureai, Yubari: rows of faded green tiles lining the walls of empty cubicles, light cutting through a space that once served school children and, later, paying guests. Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu Co., Ltd. operated the converted former Asahi Elementary School as group lodging from approximately 1994 until 2006, when the city's fiscal collapse ended operations. Part of the Family School Fureai series.