Water Slide pub collapsed debris lines the walls

collapsed debris lines the walls

timber boards

and the population has been falling ever since

Poole & Gibson

Sunlight pushes through gaps in the structure and lands hard on worn steps and crumbling concrete surrounds

Water Slide pub collapsed debris lines the wallsA disused water slide at the Coal Mining History Village in Yubari, Hokkaido, rust streaking down its faded plastic in long ochre lines. The slide was part of a multi spiral pool complex constructed between 1978 and 1983 as the city pivoted from coal to tourism. When Yubari filed for fiscal rehabilitation in 2007, the amusement rides were dismantled; the slide remained. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.