Tatami Mats pool and an abandoned machine sitting

and an abandoned machine sitting in the passage beyond

Desks and open books sit where classrooms once ran through eight years of operation before the coal economy made them redundant

Ltd established the site from around 1913

The football field at Macquarie Boys Technology High School

Tatami Mats pool and an abandoned machine sittingTatami mats stacked in a derelict classroom at Family School Fureai, Yubari, their woven rush surfaces worn from years of use. The former Asahi Elementary School building was converted to group lodging in the mid 1990s, with classrooms refloored with tatami for overnight guests. Part of the Family School Fureai series.