Bottles railways The building sits within a

The building sits within a residential and commercial streetscape shaped as much by decades of cold winters as by the economics that emptied it

Bar Floor at Pyrmont

Three Windows at Yubari

later as a hospital for the aged and chronically ill

photographed in 2016

Bottles railways The building sits within aGlass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures, left behind when the last resident walked out in September 2006. Chichibu Mine and the company town built around it sustained families for decades before metal extraction ceased in 1978 and the settlement slowly emptied. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.