Kitchen Type:Acrylic benches along the walls

benches along the walls

The path once connected workers to their homes in the upper Nakatsugawa valley

The factory opened in November 1939 and operated as a steam-driven dairy processing plant until the late 1990s

A row of derelict toilets lines a tiled wall inside Family School Fureai

The car park in front is cracked and empty

Kitchen Type:Acrylic benches along the wallsA rusted stove and sink sit beneath a thick layer of dust in a derelict kitchen of the Ogurawa settlement at Nichitsu Mining Village. The kitchen was once part of the company housing built by Nitchitsu to support the Chichibu Mine workforce. Metal extraction at the mine ceased in 1978; the last permanent resident left the settlement in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.