Welcome To Yubari hiragana Office Desk at Wangi Wangi

Office Desk at Wangi Wangi

its surface patched with moss and threaded through with vines

The plant closed permanently in August 1988

A long corridor inside Female Ward 9 at Callan Park pulls the eye toward a sunlit doorway at the far end

Dust coats the cross-bracing and metalwork throughout

Welcome To Yubari hiragana Office Desk at Wangi WangiA rusted entrance sign marks the threshold of Yubari City, its surface corroded and characters fading under decades of Hokkaido winters. This is the welcome to a city that once held over 107,000 residents at its 1960 peak and now counts fewer than 6,000. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.