Study Room reflection picking out concrete walls streaked

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

A tap hole opens on one of Port Kembla Steelworks' basic oxygen steelmaking vessels

972 in the 1960 census

its faded signage and shuttered entrance intact above a footpath that sees little traffic now

the amusement rides were dismantled

Study Room reflection picking out concrete walls streakedDesks and open books sit where classrooms once ran through eight years of operation before the coal economy made them redundant. The study room is part of the former Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School in Fukuzumi, Yubari, converted to group lodging by Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu Co., Ltd. from around 1994 until the city's fiscal collapse forced closure in 2006. Part of the Family School Fureai series.