Locker Room historical machinery left where it stood

machinery left where it stood

This was the industrial core of Station No

the former Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School converted to public lodging by Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu Co

replaced the open hearth furnaces that had run since 1931

Locker Room historical machinery left where it stoodRusting metal lockers line the walls of a worker changing room in the Ogurawa settlement, their doors hanging open on corroded hinges. The room was part of the company infrastructure built by Nitchitsu to support miners at Chichibu Mine, which operated under the Nichitsu group from 1937 until metal extraction ceased in 1978. Debris covers the floor. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.