Restaurant hotel flat light falling across a

flat light falling across a bare concrete floor

Part of a site that began producing cement in 1902 under the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company

rust bleeding across mismatched sheets in broad patches

its paint peeling back in layers that chart decades of disuse

Restaurant hotel flat light falling across aA derelict restaurant on a Yubari street, its windows dark and faded signage above the entrance hinting at past custom. It sits within a commercial fabric that once served a city of more than 100,000 people; fewer than 6,000 remain today. Snow load and unheated winters do the rest. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.