Dining Room Size:XL Blue Morning Ranges at Australia

Blue Morning Ranges at Australia and Japan

hardwood floor buried under debris and scattered timber

sits empty

The amenities building that housed it was a separate structure on the same site

Dining Room Size:XL Blue Morning Ranges at AustraliaDusty tables and chairs sit undisturbed inside a company dining room at the Ogurawa settlement, Chichibu Mine, as afternoon light cuts through the windows. The room served miners and their families during the settlement's peak years, when the population numbered in the thousands. Metal extraction ceased in 1978; the last resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.