House firehosepylon A volunteer tends the 88-metre

A volunteer tends the 88-metre platform at Bombala Railway Station

running some 100 bread varieties through a 65-foot oven

A hand-painted billboard for Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Shichinin no Samurai covers most of the upper storey of a white clapboard building on a wet Yubari street

A tap hole opens on one of Port Kembla Steelworks' basic oxygen steelmaking vessels

Beach Park Motel

House firehosepylon A volunteer tends the 88-metreA two storey timber house in Yubari, its upper storey wrapped in rusted corrugated steel and its lower walls shedding blue paint in long strips. Bare branches press against the facade; debris and broken timber collect at the front. The post war mining town vernacular that once housed tens of thousands across Hokkaido's Sorachi coalfields, now standing largely empty. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.