Bathroom Hall water A dark upholstered armchair sits

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

its lower facade clad in overlapping weathered timber boards gone grey with age

A residential street climbs the hillside in Yubari

Cold Storage at Blayney

and ice cream for a national supply chain

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.