Decaying Tuition Room trees fragments scattered across the tile

fragments scattered across the tile floor

The building sits wedged between newer structures

Red Road at Australia and Japan

from around 1994 until 2006

Weeds push through the platform where visitors once arrived to tour the wildlife park that grew from a 1967 television set

Decaying Tuition Room trees fragments scattered across the tileA solitary desk sits beneath peeling paint in the tuition room of Family School Fureai, a converted reinforced concrete school building in Yubari, Hokkaido. The building served as Asahi Elementary School from 1975 to 1983, then as a public lodging facility operated by Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu until 2006, when it was abandoned as the city entered fiscal rehabilitation. Part of the Family School Fureai series.