Welcome To Yubari hiragana A weathered timber door stands

A weathered timber door stands ajar at the Ranger Headquarters

Chinese Restaurant Bar at Bankstown

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

The plant closed permanently in August 1988

Utility Room at Nikko

Welcome To Yubari hiragana A weathered timber door standsA 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.