Living Quarters Walkway Type:Acrylic was producing 27 million bottles

was producing 27 million bottles a year

light filtering through grimy windows onto forgotten equipment

when it closed under a government notice to vacate

A rusted L-series truck sits in the sidings at Bombala Railway Station

Living Quarters Walkway Type:Acrylic was producing 27 million bottlesA narrow concrete walkway winds through the company housing of the Ogurawa settlement, vegetation pressing in on both sides. The path once connected workers to their homes in the upper Nakatsugawa valley, part of the self contained community Nitchitsu built around Chichibu Mine. The last permanent resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.