Looking Out crate undisturbed since the wildlife park

undisturbed since the wildlife park closed in 2006

a converted reinforced-concrete school building in Yubari

eucalypt and pine forest pressing close behind

Port Kembla Steelworks has operated continuously since No

Workers passed through here from the 1939 opening until closure in the late 1990s

Looking Out crate undisturbed since the wildlife parkA weathered window frame in the Ogurawa settlement opens onto the dense mountain forest pressing in from the upper Nakatsugawa valley. The Ogurawa settlement was built by Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. to house the workforce of Chichibu Mine, once the only significant metal mine in Saitama Prefecture. The last permanent resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.